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<blockquote data-quote="Coreyartus" data-source="post: 7716268" data-attributes="member: 5399">Ya know, I started playing D&amp;D in 1980, and I stopped playing it for years in part because of the attitude espoused in this article. &quot;You're not playing it right!!&nbsp; You're ruining my fun because you don't play it the way I like to play it!&nbsp; Everyone should want what I want!&nbsp; I don't care if you're having fun, you're not having fun in the right way!&quot;Get over yourself.Perhaps the type of player who plays RPGs has changed in 40 years.&nbsp; Perhaps games don't need to be the same.&nbsp; Perhaps our definition of a good time has changed, too.&nbsp; The nature of a quality gaming experience has shifted.&nbsp; Any article that nostalgically laments how RPG players aren't &quot;earning&quot; their fun in the right way just comes across as pretentious privileged elitism and slips into the blather of File 13 way too quickly to be taken seriously.&nbsp; I can understand romanticizing the past, but blaming contemporary players for not playing their own games correctly suggests more about the writer of the piece than the audience of readers.&nbsp; Get off my lawn indeed. I can have fun lighting a fire with flint and steel, but I'd rather have fun with the developments that have come along since the invention of fire...&nbsp; Older is not always better.&nbsp; I'll take the new version over the old version any day, especially if it means not having to play with judgemental participants like this writer...And frankly, ENWorld should know better than to publish this...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Coreyartus, post: 7716268, member: 5399"] Ya know, I started playing D&D in 1980, and I stopped playing it for years in part because of the attitude espoused in this article. "You're not playing it right!! You're ruining my fun because you don't play it the way I like to play it! Everyone should want what I want! I don't care if you're having fun, you're not having fun in the right way!" Get over yourself. Perhaps the type of player who plays RPGs has changed in 40 years. Perhaps games don't need to be the same. Perhaps our definition of a good time has changed, too. The nature of a quality gaming experience has shifted. Any article that nostalgically laments how RPG players aren't "earning" their fun in the right way just comes across as pretentious privileged elitism and slips into the blather of File 13 way too quickly to be taken seriously. I can understand romanticizing the past, but blaming contemporary players for not playing their own games correctly suggests more about the writer of the piece than the audience of readers. Get off my lawn indeed. I can have fun lighting a fire with flint and steel, but I'd rather have fun with the developments that have come along since the invention of fire... Older is not always better. I'll take the new version over the old version any day, especially if it means not having to play with judgemental participants like this writer... And frankly, ENWorld should know better than to publish this... [/QUOTE]

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