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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7664818" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I feel you have missed my point. When it comes to the purchase of luxury consumer goods, the concept of <em>intransigence</em> has no work to do.</p><p></p><p>Describing someone as "intransigently" refusing to buy 4e books <em>can't</em> mean anything other than that a person chose not to buy those books.</p><p></p><p>Absolutely. Some people chose not to buy a luxury item for leisure consumption. End of story. It's something that has interesting commercial significance for WotC, but it has no moral or normative significance.</p><p></p><p>What do you mean by "edition warring"?</p><p></p><p>Do you mean "Why did some people not buy 4e products despite having a history of buying WotC/D&D-branded RPG books?" If that is the question, then I've already answered it - because they didn't care to do so.</p><p></p><p>Do you mean "Why did some people make lots of internet posts setting out reasons for not liking 4e, or criticising WotC for publishing 4e?" then I'd rather leave that alone. I don't think it's a profitable topic of conversation, and it's not one that I've pursued in this thread.</p><p></p><p>This may be so. There are any number of other RPGs, too, which generate response (1) and/or (2) in prospective players. That's why people don't buy them.</p><p></p><p>Of course, some other people may buy them. From the fact that some people have response (1) and/or (2) we can't tell whether or not a game made profits for its publisher.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I think these posts both point to the true character of the "edition wars". Neither is an observation about a game's commercial prospects, nor an observation about WotC's financial health. They are observations about the social practice of expressing an opinion about a game.</p><p></p><p>Analysis of the "edition wars" belongs to the same broad genre as understanding why some novels or paintings or movies or TV shows generate pages and pages of controversy in Time magazine, while others which seem superficially comparable draw comment only in some boutique or avant garde professional journal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7664818, member: 42582"] I feel you have missed my point. When it comes to the purchase of luxury consumer goods, the concept of [I]intransigence[/I] has no work to do. Describing someone as "intransigently" refusing to buy 4e books [I]can't[/I] mean anything other than that a person chose not to buy those books. Absolutely. Some people chose not to buy a luxury item for leisure consumption. End of story. It's something that has interesting commercial significance for WotC, but it has no moral or normative significance. What do you mean by "edition warring"? Do you mean "Why did some people not buy 4e products despite having a history of buying WotC/D&D-branded RPG books?" If that is the question, then I've already answered it - because they didn't care to do so. Do you mean "Why did some people make lots of internet posts setting out reasons for not liking 4e, or criticising WotC for publishing 4e?" then I'd rather leave that alone. I don't think it's a profitable topic of conversation, and it's not one that I've pursued in this thread. This may be so. There are any number of other RPGs, too, which generate response (1) and/or (2) in prospective players. That's why people don't buy them. Of course, some other people may buy them. From the fact that some people have response (1) and/or (2) we can't tell whether or not a game made profits for its publisher. I think these posts both point to the true character of the "edition wars". Neither is an observation about a game's commercial prospects, nor an observation about WotC's financial health. They are observations about the social practice of expressing an opinion about a game. Analysis of the "edition wars" belongs to the same broad genre as understanding why some novels or paintings or movies or TV shows generate pages and pages of controversy in Time magazine, while others which seem superficially comparable draw comment only in some boutique or avant garde professional journal. [/QUOTE]
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