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<blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 7755864" data-attributes="member: 6756765">There's a number of factors that have potential to effect GenCon next year...1.&nbsp; MaRo's push into far left politics and his using Magic the Gathering as a vehicle.&nbsp; This carries strong risk of alienating a huge percentage of their customer base, and since Mtg is a product whose success depends on customer base size, since it can't be played without a minimum number of people in many events, it has a lot of potential to cause the product to largely crash.2.&nbsp; The high probability that said push will carry over to D&amp;D, same company so it's reasonable to assume that we'll soon see D&amp;D become a vehicle.&nbsp; Anita's involvement with the board gaming side is a good example.3.&nbsp; The events this year at GenCon with an alleged assault of a youtuber by a left wing political activist will make some unknown number of people rethink whether or not they want to attend, especially if no action is taken to redress the issue.&nbsp; GenCon didn't help itself by trying to ignore the whole thing either.&nbsp; All of this connected back to WOTC since its product lines were the battleground that ignited the event.4.&nbsp; The events like WorldCon, the whole Larry Correia incident at Origins, GenCon and Anita, they're all signaling that conventions are left wing politics vehicles.&nbsp; Even if we assume that everything is either left or right, that's 50% of the customer base they're pushing out.&nbsp; But the left tends to push out centrist opinions too, and Gallup pegs the left around 26% the last time I looked, so they could be signaling they're left wing politics vehicles to 74% of the customers.5.&nbsp; Next year is going to see the start of the election battle lines being drawn.&nbsp; It's *very* likely that the political war is going to heat up next summer in the U.S., and since conventions are becoming political battlegrounds for some bizarre reason, it's a fair bet that we'll see all of the U.S. ones melt down over the course of the next two years.It all comes down to one simple truth.&nbsp; You cannot be a political activism vehicle and a mass market product.&nbsp; You have to be one or the other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rygar, post: 7755864, member: 6756765"] There's a number of factors that have potential to effect GenCon next year... 1. MaRo's push into far left politics and his using Magic the Gathering as a vehicle. This carries strong risk of alienating a huge percentage of their customer base, and since Mtg is a product whose success depends on customer base size, since it can't be played without a minimum number of people in many events, it has a lot of potential to cause the product to largely crash. 2. The high probability that said push will carry over to D&D, same company so it's reasonable to assume that we'll soon see D&D become a vehicle. Anita's involvement with the board gaming side is a good example. 3. The events this year at GenCon with an alleged assault of a youtuber by a left wing political activist will make some unknown number of people rethink whether or not they want to attend, especially if no action is taken to redress the issue. GenCon didn't help itself by trying to ignore the whole thing either. All of this connected back to WOTC since its product lines were the battleground that ignited the event. 4. The events like WorldCon, the whole Larry Correia incident at Origins, GenCon and Anita, they're all signaling that conventions are left wing politics vehicles. Even if we assume that everything is either left or right, that's 50% of the customer base they're pushing out. But the left tends to push out centrist opinions too, and Gallup pegs the left around 26% the last time I looked, so they could be signaling they're left wing politics vehicles to 74% of the customers. 5. Next year is going to see the start of the election battle lines being drawn. It's *very* likely that the political war is going to heat up next summer in the U.S., and since conventions are becoming political battlegrounds for some bizarre reason, it's a fair bet that we'll see all of the U.S. ones melt down over the course of the next two years. It all comes down to one simple truth. You cannot be a political activism vehicle and a mass market product. You have to be one or the other. [/QUOTE]

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