Are you excited about the Forgotten Realms setting changes?

[danbuter1]

What about 37 year old WoW players...?

Now that's just silly.

 

[Hussar]

So they may be removing some perceived (and I believe entirely fictional) barriers to entry. How does that make a 13 year old WOW addict (apparently their target audience for 4E) /snip

It always makes me laugh when this gets trotted out. If D&D had the demographics of an MMORPG, we'd be 25-30 years old, and half of us would be female.

D&D should be whole heartedly EMBRACING the demographic that plays MMORPG's.

 

[Najo]

What about 37 year old WoW players...?

They probably play D&D then already, or stopped because all of their friends no longer play. 13 year olds goto school, meet friends and have free time to play D&D. They need them more.

 

[Najo]

Those are good points. I really think that they are failing to not alienate current fans. That's a big mistake. That can really dampen the word of mouth advertising they are relying on. The changes are so drastic, that they might as well make a new campaign setting and quit supporting the Realms. The only reason they don't is because the Forgotten Realms logo is popular, and it sells products. Thats the bottom line. Who else deliberatley tries to get older customers to not buy and use their products? I just don't see nuking the Realms as a viable way to give it new life. The way they are treating long time customers and fans of the Realms, I almost wish it backfires on them just on principle. Either way, the Realms are dead to me.

I understand the way you feel as how they've portrayed the 4e realms so far. Wait until they put the book out and then flip through it. Judge it fully then. It is still possible it will look and feel like the realms. I think they can still pull it off if they tribute the current setting, its heroes and points of interest, giving us a feel of the realms we know now haunting the realms after the spellplague through stories, legendary heroes, ruins, cultures and so on.

 

[Shazman]

Looking at the 4E Realms Campaign Setting would be the same thing as rubbernecking on the interstate when you see a bad accident. Morbid curosity to see just how bad it is would be the only reason to look at it. Then I'd probably put it away in disgust. I do most of my shopping online, so I think I will spare myself from this heartache. 4E Realms is dead to me.

 

[Primal]

Looking at the 4E Realms Campaign Setting would be the same thing as rubbernecking on the interstate when you see a bad accident. Morbid curosity to see just how bad it is would be the only reason to look at it. Then I'd probably put it away in disgust. I do most of my shopping online, so I think I will spare myself from this heartache. 4E Realms is dead to me.

My thoughts exactly... I might take a peek at it at my FLGS, though, but unless all they've revealed so far turns out to be a silly joke, I can't imagine playing in 4E FR.

 

[apiratto]

[i realize the thread has mostly diverged from directly addressing the poll question, and that moreover my opinion is not only marginal but also coming from the mouth of a enworld forum noob, but all the same


where's the option for those of us who don't give a rat's hemorrhoid about the realms but read a drizzt novel or two back in middleschool?

and may i ask: what does it say about us and our game when we must reassure each other that, yes, you, as a d&d player, are free to acknowledge or dispense with new campaign setting developments or elements of canon as you see fit?