Changeover Poll

[catsclaw227]

Interesting poll results. Looks like roughly 2/3 of the voters on Enworld don't play 4e at all.

I think it's more accurate to say that roughly 2/3 of the voters OF THIS POLL don't play 4e at all. Even if 1000 people are considered a sample, this sample is a bit skewed towards active participants. I am not sure of the relevance towards total Enworld members.

But you did say 2/3 of the VOTERS on Enworld.....

 

[DaveMage]

Interesting poll results. Looks like roughly 2/3 of the voters on Enworld don't play 4e at all.

Nah - I just have 500 aliases.

 

[Nebulous]

Nah - I just have 500 aliases.

Heh, heh, i should have guessed it was just one very determined person to skew the results!

 

[ki11erDM]

I am thinking a better poll would be: Have you stopped coming to Enworld message boards since you switched to 4e?

The main reason I say that is that I am the only member of my play group that comes to these boards now. And I can’t blame them for not wanting to deal with the disdain the long timers have for 4e. It is sad to see these boards become almost completely useless.

 

[Sammael]

I am thinking a better poll would be: Have you stopped coming to Enworld message boards since you switched to 4e?

The main reason I say that is that I am the only member of my play group that comes to these boards now. And I can’t blame them for not wanting to deal with the disdain the long timers have for 4e. It is sad to see these boards become almost completely useless.

Interesting. I stopped posting on ENWorld sometime in August and reverted to lurking (and not even that for a while) because of the pro-4E hysteria that was going on. I was drawn back a short while ago because I saw that people who weren't absolutely in love with 4E were finally once again allowed to express their opinions without a legion of pro-4E fans jumping at their throats the moment they voiced their dissent.

I guess this proves that ENWorld works in cycles. I'm sure the pro-4E people will be back with a vengeance in a month or two.

 

[resistor]

Interesting. I stopped posting on ENWorld sometime in August and reverted to lurking (and not even that for a while) because of the pro-4E hysteria that was going on. I was drawn back a short while ago because I saw that people who weren't absolutely in love with 4E were finally once again allowed to express their opinions without a legion of pro-4E fans jumping at their throats the moment they voiced their dissent.

I guess this proves that ENWorld works in cycles. I'm sure the pro-4E people will be back with a vengeance in a month or two.

My experience is the same. I pretty much stopped visiting ENWorld altogether for most of the summer/fall because I felt unwelcome amidst the furor of 4e love. I've only come back recently since things seem to have died down.

 

[Nebulous]

I guess this proves that ENWorld works in cycles. I'm sure the pro-4E people will be back with a vengeance in a month or two.

Cycles, yes, but maybe a lot of those pro-4e lovers, after 6 months of game experience, have cooled off some. It's a good system, but not the be-all-end-all of gaming.

 

[Wicht]

This would be true if 4E was actually a move forward. The general consensus is that 4E is a fairly large step in the opposite direction.

Hey Darrin, I voted in the last category, haven't tried 4e. Don't plan on it unless I meet someone who happens to invite me to a game. I have no interest in buying the books (Paizo and Green Ronin gets all my money at the moment) . But I think that saying 4e goes backwards as a game is a bit unfair. In my mind it was neither a step forward or backwards. It was just such a huge step sideways that it lost me.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I don't know if this poll has any meaning at all ... but I believe that the more votes that are cast, the more meaningful it might be.

 

[catsclaw227]

D&D failed because the company built around it went bankrupt and ceased publication, prompting the WotC buyout. That's the definition of failure.

Actually, it was TSR failed, not D&D. D&D didn't fail any more than fruit fails just because Dole goes out of business.

This would be true if 4E was actually a move forward. The general consensus is that 4E is a fairly large step in the opposite direction.

I've seen no evidence to support this theory. If anything, the move was lateral. Yes, very different, but not backwards.

Personally, I believe it is a forward step, but I am not going to state this as something factual and use a blanket "general consensus" statement to make me feel better about it.