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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 5653007" data-attributes="member: 6668292">I'll preface this by saying I don't play either 3.X or 4e.I think the issue is that some people don't like the developers (that are understandably changing the game they're playing, with a new edition) to say what "badwrongfun" is. It's one thing for them to say, "this isn't our goal with this edition. Our goal is this." It's another to say, "yeah, who could have possibly enjoyed something like that? Seriously, nobody liked what we created."I don't want the people that run the game I play to say what "badwrongfun" is. I understand when they say, "our goal doesn't support this choice" because the game can't support everything (even if it seems like D&D tries to, sometimes). Alienating a group of customers, even if it's small, is kind of a red flag to me, unless they really deserve it. A small segment of people that ended up liking some of the stuff released for the game? They don't really deserve ridicule, in my opinion.Disagreement, I can understand. Shifting goals, I can understand. Making fun of something they liked? I don't like seeing that in a company. It makes me think they value their own preferences over that of their customers, and in a smaller hobby industry, that's disconcerting to me. It alienates me, even if they weren't making fun of me. Does that mean that they value their own preferences over that of their customers? No, it doesn't. But it sure can look or feel that way when they act childishly (the context of the quote in this thread makes me think they we're trying to act like the "cool kids" by bashing something they didn't particularly like).That's just my thoughts on it. I'm not making a judgment on the actual character of the people in the discussion, but I am making a statement of how they come across to me, based on the quote and the context given. There are a lot of better ways to go about promoting your new product than alienating people who liked your old product.Just my two cents. As always, play what you like <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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