D&D General Why grognards still matter

[Morrus]

The Pareto Principle in business states, 10 percent of your customers provide 90 percent of your profit. the other 90 percent of your customers spend lots of money but in small amounts. Smart companies always cater to the 10 percent first then the 90 percent.

Pithy, but you're misunderstanding the application of that principle.

You don't respond to "show me who the people buying books are" with "cater to the people buying books". The question being asked is WHO are those people. You haven't answered that.

 

[NN]

The Pareto Principle in business states, 10 percent of your customers provide 90 percent of your profit. the other 90 percent of your customers spend lots of money but in small amounts. Smart companies always cater to the 10 percent first then the 90 percent.

a) its 80/20
b) its the kind of bunk that infects linkedin and is dispelled by a moments thought

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The Pareto Principle in business states, 10 percent of your customers provide 90 percent of your profit. the other 90 percent of your customers spend lots of money but in small amounts. Smart companies always cater to the 10 percent first then the 90 percent.

So, I should use this principle when I open a bakery? You guarantee it will work?

 

[Ogre Mage]

I thought grognards were people who started with an earlier edition and are convinced that earlier edition is best and the current and/or newer editions are crap.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

We still buy a higher percentage of books than kidz these daze.

Have you got even the slightest shred of proof that this is true, not a typical Boomer (in the broad sense) "I am more important economically and culturally than other people" opinion? Sorry if that sounds mean, I don't mean to be mean, but like, really? It seems like the worst kind of guesswork here.

Am I missing some hard evidence?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I thought grognards were people who started with an earlier edition and are convinced that earlier edition is best and the current and/or newer editions are crap.

At this point it means anyone who has played the game for a significantly long time and remembers and talks about older editions.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The Pareto Principle in business states, 10 percent of your customers provide 90 percent of your profit. the other 90 percent of your customers spend lots of money but in small amounts. Smart companies always cater to the 10 percent first then the 90 percent.

LOL no.

Absolutely not. That's awful business-think misunderstanding of the Pareto Principle. Plus you literally changed the numbers!

Pareto principle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Further, even in business management, it's a strictly business and client principle, not a business and customer principle, and the fact that you're using it as business and customer and changing the numbers from 80/20 to 90/10 is pretty wild. That's like, even accepting it being misused/misunderstood, you're misusing it and misunderstanding it further. I think maybe you or whoever taught that to you confused it with whale-based approaches.

 

[Ogre Mage]

At this point it means anyone who has played the game for a significantly long time and remembers and talks about older editions.

Well by that definition I am a grognard then. And here I thought I wasn't. lol.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well by that definition I am a grognard then. And here I thought I wasn't. lol.

The vast majority of people on this board, including me, are grogs at this point so yeah. Just be the kind of grog you want to see!

 

[TiQuinn]

At this point it means anyone who has played the game for a significantly long time and remembers and talks about older editions.

Which just means someone older, not a grognard.