Being threatened by products you aren't interested in

[Henry]

This thread is uninteresting to me and, therefore, I'm threatened by it.

I am threatened by your being threatened, and resent your counter-threats!

(I would add, "Help! Help! I'm being Oppressed!" but that's an old joke...)

 

[Thurbane]

I think it's a valid reaction, and not limited to the RPG industry.

It's all about opportunity cost.

When Blizzard pours all their resources into WoW, if you're not a fan of MMORPGs, and are a fan of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo, there's an opportunity cost.

When Joss Whedon spends a good chunk of time on a Wonder Woman movie that he won't end up making, there's an opportunity cost for fans of the Buffyverse.

When Robert Jordan delays finishing the Wheel of Time series while writing Conan and civil war novels, there's an opportunity cost for fans of WoT.

Back to D&D in particular...

When WotC announces that they plan on limiting the number of campaign settings they'll produce, and you're a fan of Greyhawk, Planescape, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, etc., and they go on to announce Eberron, there's an opportunity cost.

When one or more of your favorite designers are assigned to the new campaign setting that doesn't interest you (James Wyatt, I miss you), there's an opportunity cost.

It's all about opportunity cost.

Well said, that pretty much sums up my opinion entirely...

 

[Pbartender]

When Robert Jordan delays finishing the Wheel of Time series while writing Conan and civil war novels, there's an opportunity cost for fans of WoT.

For that matter, when Robert Jordan delays finishing the Wheel of Time series while writing Conan novels, there's an opportunity cost for fans of Conan as well....


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[drothgery]

For that matter, when Robert Jordan delays finishing the Wheel of Time series while writing Conan novels, there's an opportunity cost for fans of Conan as well....

As per above, that never actually happened; Jordan's Conan novels were all written before WoT, they were just republished later when Jordan became more popular due to WoT.

 

[Pbartender]

As per above, that never actually happened; Jordan's Conan novels were all written before WoT, they were just republished later when Jordan became more popular due to WoT.

It was a joke.

Jordan writing Conan novels is an opportunity cost for fans of Conan as well... Get it? Eh? Get it?

It means that... Oh, never mind.

 

[Jarrod]

Offensensitivity.

... sorry about the small size, best one I could find.

 

[drothgery]

It was a joke.

Jordan writing Conan novels is an opportunity cost for fans of Conan as well... Get it? Eh? Get it?

It means that... Oh, never mind.

I know what you meant, and that it was a joke. But it doesn't work as a joke if the underlying premise (the Jordan wrote some Conan books after starting WoT) didn't actually happen.

 

[Sir Elton]

Diaglo is WotC's dream customer. He bitches about everything, but he also buys everything.

Well, he has a place where he can complain about the stuff he buys.

 

[Gooba42]

The essential complaint boils down to "I need someone to hold my hand or my game falls apart!".

As long as the material is reasonably balanced, 3.5E compatible, it's all FR, it's all Eberron, it's all Dark Sun and it's all homebrew-thingy-that-hasn't-got-a-name-yet.

If you're slavishly obeying the FR (or anything else) canon, then you're really never going to be self-sufficient in your gaming. There will always be one more book or article or something that you don't have to complete your Xeroxed copy of someone else's masterpiece.

Go, create. Buy the material you like. Don't buy the material you don't like. Brand (or Campaign Setting) loyalty inhibits a market from performing in the interest of the consumer. If you stop buying things just because they have Forgotten Realms stamped on the cover and buy them for the content, you'll be doing yourself a big favor.

 

[Nightfall]

*shoots Jarrod for that stupid link*

Psion,

When AREN'T you playing Devil's advocate? Next to Shemeksa, you're the biggest fiend I know.