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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 5343799" data-attributes="member: 17551">I think I'm in this category.  And it's not that I particularly dislike 4e.  It's simply not the game for me.  I just find the strategy of selling a game that reminds people of the game they used to play instead of the old game itself to be an odd one.  The reason WotC is doing it is obviously because WotC thinks that their new product is quite a bit better than the old product.  And obviously 4e fans like you are going to agree with them.  But the question is whether "the new-old guys" will find it to be a fun improvement or whether it will be too alien to them to scratch the nostalgia itch they were going for.  You've seen the evolution of the game over the past 25 years or perhaps have only experienced the game in its newer forms.  Someone who went into an rpg coma 25 years ago hasn't.  I'm curious about the reaction, negative, positive, otherwise.And more than anything else, I'm curious to see to what extent the lapsed buyers become repeat customers.  If WotC just wanted to sell people a red box so the purchaser can scratch the nostalgia itch, they'd simply put out the old red box again.  It's clear they want to get the buyers of the new red box to become D&D customers for the new system.This seems to me to be the first time TSR/WotC have acknowledged that there's a bunch of lapsed rpg'ers from the 80s who are potential customers and put something together to go after them.  I felt that the "Back to the Dungeon" campaign from 3e was more of an attempt to get people who were still rpg'ers who just weren't buying D&D products anymore to get back into D&D.  I feel like this effort could go a step beyond that towards those who aren't playing any rpg anymore, and for that reason am very curious about how it all works out.</blockquote>

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