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Different folks want different things. I find that treating a fandom as a hive mind is never a good idea.Basically, as a collective, D&D fans have no idea what they want.
Different folks want different things. I find that treating a fandom as a hive mind is never a good idea.Basically, as a collective, D&D fans have no idea what they want.
Look at comics!well this too.... and not just D&D fans. most fans make AWFUL choices when given complete control.
Sure, but when you have a massive outcry about preview things where a significant chunk of your active, engaged userbase effectively review-bombs your game because it does <X>, and then you respond to that criticism and avoid <X> only to have essentially the same community then turn around and howl bloody murder because you avoided <X>....Different folks want different things. I find that treating a fandom as a hive mind is never a good idea.
yes very much so... and back to why I started this thread.Different folks want different things. I find that treating a fandom as a hive mind is never a good idea.
yeah... going by fans that grew up loving DC like Jeff Johns, but who wrote out some of MY FAVORITE characters... walley and Kyle get shoved to the back so Barry and Hal can come back. Fate gets stabbed in the back by his own knife (that can't hurt him and he has 100% mental control of) so Dr Fate can return (and unlike the 2 before can't even have new next to old)Look at comics!
Marvel's internal fan-rot is disguised by the fact that Marvel Studios has been shackled and brain-boxed by Disney, but in the comics... yeesh.
n this case it is caster supremacy.Sure, but when you have a massive outcry about preview things where a significant chunk of your active, engaged userbase effectively review-bombs your game because it does <X>, and then you respond to that criticism and avoid <X> only to have essentially the same community then turn around and howl bloody murder because you avoided <X>....
superman blue... i remember. Atleast booster got a new suit out of that.Back when I collected comics full-time, I stopped collecting DC seriously after Superman became the Man of Plasma (who remembers THAT?) and I just switched to collecting trades of things I liked.
this tells me you are WAY smarter than I... that is cheaper gives you more forewarning easier to keep and takes up less space... I don't know why I am not just trade hunting.So now I only collect trades there as well. This means that I can't vote with my wallet, sadly, since the comic companies pretty much decide what's popular based on initial run sales.
You like a complete collection? You have more disposable income?superman blue... i remember. Atleast booster got a new suit out of that.
for all my love of that era, man does that bring back BAD memories...
this tells me you are WAY smarter than I... that is cheaper gives you more forewarning easier to keep and takes up less space... I don't know why I am not just trade hunting.
How can we know it was the same people? Maybe the 2nd group was quiet until the change.Who among you lovely folks remembers Golden Wyvern Adept?
See, following from Bo9S (the same product where D&D players first learned that outright lies and comparison to D&D's unrequited crushes like anime and vidja games could sway people against good products), WotC previewed the new edition with a feat for wand casters that had flavor referencing an organization of wand-based casters; the Golden Wyvern School.
The wonderful folks who are now champions of D&D flavor obviously loved this and... no wait, they ripped it to shreds. They filled several 50+ pages threads on how this was the worst thing to ever happen to D&D and how WotC should NEVER put flavor text into rules. They demanded WotC learn this lesson and never do this again.
Then WotC published clean rules with flavor text in the italics or in the headers for Races and Classes.
At which point, those guys collectively shouted 'GOTCHA!' and pounced on them, tearing them to shreds for not having feats just chock full of flavor text.