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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 3721998" data-attributes="member: 1154">I don't know that I'd say WotC is in competition with WoW and other MMORPGs. Certainly, there is going to be relatively significant overlap between players of MMORPGs and potential players of RPGs (relatively significant compared to the population overall, I mean). Wizards definitely wants-- and needs-- to target this demographic and get them interested in P&P RPGs.However, I'd kind of liken it to a Taco Bell (the undisputed king of fast food-- UNDISPUTED! DON'T DISPUTE IT! TACO BELL > ALL) being across the street from an Applebees. Both are, in theory, after the same demographic: hungry people. Taco Bell has the bonus of being easily accessible, quick and rather satisfying for what it is. Applebees, on the other hand, requires a much bigger commitment. You gotta put on pants and a shirt without stains on it; you gotta get out of the car; you gotta sit there and wait for your food and and then you gotta sit there and eat it. It also requires the physical presence of other people; what loser eats at a restaurant alone*? But man, the food there is better and so much more satisfying, and the actual experience of sitting there and eating and socializing with other people face to face adds a whole 'nother dimension to it! Ultimately, while they're targetting the same demographic, they serve different purposes, and sometimes you want taco bell... sometimes you want applebees.The problem is, Wizards' Applebees isn't across the street from Taco Bell; you gotta go down the road a few hundred yards and then turn down a side street which doesn't see much traffic. It's not that the Applebees is far away or even difficult to get to, it's just that most people don't know about it, and even those who do know about it tend to forget about; meanwhile, there's Taco Bell, right on the same road you drive back and forth to work every day.*I used to eat restaurants alone quite a lot. That's meant to be tongue in cheek. I apologize if you eat at restaurants alone and felt insulted. Loser. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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