Of course, neither of us knows how many of us are on either side of this. But I guarantee that WoTC knows. And considering how well 5e is still selling after all this time, I'm willing to be that they know what they are doing.
Nha, that doesnt count because its not a pure copy/paste of the old material they already own.
WotC has stated that younger gamers far outnumber older ones. Assuming this is true, it doesn't matter to them if 99% of older gamers dislike their current direction, or just 1% (I don't actually think either is true). They can comfortably ignore the entire demographic and suffer comparatively little at their bottom line.
But..that doesn't mean they are. And isn't "suffer comparatively little" by doing so the direct opposite of this entire discussion about demographics? I thought the whole argument was they were ignoring older gamers, and were fools to do so, because we are the majority?
Really doesn't matter much what he intended. Star Wars releases have happened many times since then(most recently like last month or February) and it's still overwhelmingly 45+ people who are the fans. Lucas got it wrong.
I do see reason to doubt them. They are missing a large chunk of older players(46+ is probably at least 5%) and the are an untrustworthy company. So where is that 5%? Probably in the younger percentages where they want them. A typographical error would have been if the last category only had 45. Then they would legitimately be able to claim that the + was left off. Nobody makes a 40-45+ category, though. They make a 40+ instead.
40+ all around is 12%, so 5% being over 45 is possible with the data as presented. Still skews older than the ENworld user data, though so not seeing why any of this is at all unlikely.
Right in a "how can we make the most money sense", but I don't believe that should be the highest priority of a game company. I know many disagree.
