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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8857340" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>And all I can say is, I think MtG is going to at least <em>try</em> to make things better, the movie already has relatively low expectations (it's a D&D movie, those are always crap, doesn't matter that this one looks super shiny), and predicting that "One D&D" tanks is circular, presuming the game will fail and thus concluding that the game will fail.</p><p></p><p>Is this scenario <em>possible?</em> Certainly. Almost anything is possible.</p><p></p><p>Is this scenario <em>plausible?</em> I don't really think so.</p><p></p><p>I suspect the movie will be fair-to-middling. It won't start a brand-new D&D film franchise nor collect award nominations, but it won't be a box office bomb either. It will simply be a movie. The only way it would tank is if it has some kind of absolute, unquestioned, knock-your-socks-off <em>unbeatable</em> competition. That's an unpredictable event--you can never know how well competing films are going to do until after they're already out in the world.</p><p></p><p>I suspect MtG will take some hard knocks, and require a few years to recover, and may not ever <em>fully</em> recover. But it won't go absolutely, unequivocally belly-up, totally-lost-cause either. If it dies, it will be a long, slow death.</p><p></p><p>And then, as stated, any amount of presumption about "One D&D" doing poorly is circular reasoning. We must simply suspend judgment, and observe what happens. <em>If</em> "One D&D" truly does absolutely, unequivocally tank--if it crashes and burns outright--then that alone is enough to say "D&D has died" by the standards you've presented in the thread (since you classify 4e as a "death" despite former WotC staff saying it did just fine financially.) If it <em>doesn't</em> fail spectacularly...then I just don't see D&D "dying" even by the loose standard you've given us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8857340, member: 6790260"] And all I can say is, I think MtG is going to at least [I]try[/I] to make things better, the movie already has relatively low expectations (it's a D&D movie, those are always crap, doesn't matter that this one looks super shiny), and predicting that "One D&D" tanks is circular, presuming the game will fail and thus concluding that the game will fail. Is this scenario [I]possible?[/I] Certainly. Almost anything is possible. Is this scenario [I]plausible?[/I] I don't really think so. I suspect the movie will be fair-to-middling. It won't start a brand-new D&D film franchise nor collect award nominations, but it won't be a box office bomb either. It will simply be a movie. The only way it would tank is if it has some kind of absolute, unquestioned, knock-your-socks-off [I]unbeatable[/I] competition. That's an unpredictable event--you can never know how well competing films are going to do until after they're already out in the world. I suspect MtG will take some hard knocks, and require a few years to recover, and may not ever [I]fully[/I] recover. But it won't go absolutely, unequivocally belly-up, totally-lost-cause either. If it dies, it will be a long, slow death. And then, as stated, any amount of presumption about "One D&D" doing poorly is circular reasoning. We must simply suspend judgment, and observe what happens. [I]If[/I] "One D&D" truly does absolutely, unequivocally tank--if it crashes and burns outright--then that alone is enough to say "D&D has died" by the standards you've presented in the thread (since you classify 4e as a "death" despite former WotC staff saying it did just fine financially.) If it [I]doesn't[/I] fail spectacularly...then I just don't see D&D "dying" even by the loose standard you've given us. [/QUOTE]
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