Changeover Poll

[Edena_of_Neith]

Yes, start over.
Tell the Admins you made a mistake, and you are fixing it with a second thread. Have them close the first thread, the first poll.

The Changeover Poll was meant to be private. It is important, if you want an equivalent response on RPGnet, that it be private there.
Otherwise, you have set up a completely different poll than the one here. People simply won't vote the same.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Again, start over. I will explain myself:

If the Changeover Poll is public, it will start a Flame War.
People will *expect* attack, if they vote and their Screen Name is publicly shown. And their expectations will be met.
They will be bristling, ready to strike back. They will.

What would have been merely a racuous debate, will turn into a Flame War. Obviously, nobody wants that. Certainly not me.

Edena_of_Neith

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

1020 votes.

Changeover: 32%
No Changeover: 59%
Partial Changeover: 9%
Option 6: 31%

Like a Rock.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

(muses, very solemn)

So it is.
4E is rejected by those at ENWorld.

Whether because ENWorld is pro-3E, or because 4E is unpopular, or other reasons, 4E has failed here.

With only 26% switching fully over (Option 1) it has failed.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I wonder what percentage of the 4e adopters here were playtesters, or are no more than 1 person removed from the process (ie, playing in a game with someone who playtested).

 

[Toben the Many]

Wow.

So far, 4e is more successful over at RPG.net than over here an ENWorld! What does that say?

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Wow.

So far, 4e is more successful over at RPG.net than over here an ENWorld! What does that say?

EDIT:

The Changeover Poll at rpg.net is far more favorable to 4E. It is still in progress, with 141 votes.

Changeover: 62%
No Changeover: 28%
Partial Changeover: 10%
Option 6: 13%

It is very puzzling. There is a *massive* difference in the poll results, from ENWorld compared to RPGnet. I cannot account for it.

 

[I'm A Banana]

So far, 4e is more successful over at RPG.net than over here an ENWorld! What does that say

At 150 votes, not a whole lot. But a bit. Between the two boards, "not changing" is still winning by a fairly thick margin. I'd expect RPG.net to go more for 4e, but I kind of expected ENWorld to go more for 4e, so maybe I'm just insane.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I guess, if you look at the preliminary results, that ...

RPGnet is more like the 4E board.
ENWorld is more like the 3E board.

EDIT:

Changeover is winning by a 2/3rds margin in that poll on RPGnet, almost the exactly reverse of ENWorld. A staggering difference.
Is that a *private* poll? That is, can everyone see how you voted, or not?

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Wow.

So far, 4e is more successful over at RPG.net than over here an ENWorld! What does that say?

Nothing we didn't already know.

RPG.net is "Roleplay Promiscuous."

They are roleplayers first and foremost; D&D players by circumstance. Ask them tomorrow what they are playing and it will be something different.

It says exactly what we all already know about 4e: It was designed to be appealing to a wide audience, not necessarily to its niche audience.

The question is the same as it has always been: Whether or not that will prove to be a successful strategy in the long term.