D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro

[Micah Sweet]

On some level, if they were being honest, that's probably what it is.

If only they were honest then.

 

[MichaelSomething]

How is: ‘Your story is yours to tell’ dictating the love lives of your character? They are literally saying the opposite.

I mean "do the people who complained about the Queer picture want Hasbro to regulate who our characters can love?" As in do they want Hasbro to control what type of content people see in the game if it means WOTC excludes the stuff they don't like?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Here's the thing about fandom. You either go with it or you bow out. I was a huge Star Wars fan but the sequel trilogy left a bitter enough taste in my mouth that when it was said and done, I had less interest in following the new projects with the gusto I had a decade ago. I accept that the new stuff isn't my cup of tea and while I don't hate some of the new stuff like the Mandelorian, I don't engage with it the way I did before.

What I don't do is go on every Star Wars based social media or discussion group and lament how Star Wars fired me as a fan, refuse to cater to the diehard OT fans, changed canon to remove much of the old Expanded Universe and openly wish every future project fails so that Disney sells the property to some fans who will return it to it's glory days.

While I see this as pretty hyperbolic if you're referring to my behavior, it sounds very much like you're telling me to stop expressing my feelings.

 

[mamba]

Are the products in question supposed to be "grown out of"? Are we supposed to stop playing (and buying) when we cease to be teenagers? I'm pretty sure that's the case with Saturday Morning Cartoons. Not so much with D&D.

most people do in fact grow out of D&D. You can of course keep playing, the current version is supposed to be what teens want however. You can enjoy it despite that, or play something else. You can even keep playing the version you played as a teen

 

[Morrus]

Are the products in question supposed to be "grown out of"? Are we supposed to stop playing (and buying) when we cease to be teenagers? I'm pretty sure that's the case with Saturday Morning Cartoons. Not so much with D&D. And it's the demographic they stop caring about, the one I've been a part of since I entered my 20s (long ago, and I still like RPGs), not me personally.

Nope, they still care about the 20s demographic . Never fear!

 

[Micah Sweet]

It’s not even just that. It’s not just that the game has changed (which is has). Or kids have changed (which they have). It’s that the world has changed because that’s how time works. And the trope of middle aged men whining about kids today is old, old, old. And so tiresome.

You know, it is possible to market to more than one demographic simultaneously.

 

[Morrus]

While I see this as pretty hyperbolic if you're referring to my behavior, it sounds very much like you're telling me to stop expressing my feelings.

Micah, I say this with as much respect and kindness as I can… but your “expression of your feelings” is very similar to a phenomenon known as “toxic fandom”. Either go along with the fandom or don’t, but shaking your fist at a world that is leaving you behind is all on you.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Nope, they still care about the 20s demographic . Never fear!

Very funny, but it doesn't address the growing out of part of my post.

 

[Mallus]

Is this some D&D version of Roko's Basilisk?

The first rule of Roko’s Basikisk is…

Oh wait. Damnit.

 

[GothmogIV]

Smart people at WotC do market research and target their products--and their social media--toward the people who are most likely to buy their stuff. In that light, their research and sales data must be showing them that old men yelling at clouds--a demographic I am a member of!--are less financially important than young people who like representation in their games.

So...my original question is answered.