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<blockquote data-quote="BronzeDragon" data-source="post: 5207292" data-attributes="member: 873">Yes, I think I do.Ten years ago people had been abandoning the game left and right (because of several reasons related both to 2E as a system and TSR's boneheaded moves), and the game wasn't attracting new players with any kind of force (at least not in my corner of the woods), which leads me to believe the fan base was actually a bit older than it is today. Perhaps not by much, but still.My argument, or rather the counter-argument to my points, would be that these guys that were, I don't know, huge fans of 2E, eventually got tired of trying to fan the flames, since the results were clearly less than promising (i.e. very few people were actually buying the whole &quot;3E sucks&quot; argument).What seems to be happening right now is that there is no such situation as diminishing returns on a flame war about the editions. The more fuel you use, the more the fires are stoked and the higher the flames fly, so it apparently is, right now, a much bigger split in the fan base than it was 10 years ago.I remember loads of people that were at the very least concerned about the state of the game after the release of 3E, but these people either were eventually won over or got tired from the flame wars. The situation appears more serious now.But, then again, this is mostly based on opinion, hearsay and anecdotal evidence, so YMMV...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BronzeDragon, post: 5207292, member: 873"] Yes, I think I do. Ten years ago people had been abandoning the game left and right (because of several reasons related both to 2E as a system and TSR's boneheaded moves), and the game wasn't attracting new players with any kind of force (at least not in my corner of the woods), which leads me to believe the fan base was actually a bit older than it is today. Perhaps not by much, but still. My argument, or rather the counter-argument to my points, would be that these guys that were, I don't know, huge fans of 2E, eventually got tired of trying to fan the flames, since the results were clearly less than promising (i.e. very few people were actually buying the whole "3E sucks" argument). What seems to be happening right now is that there is no such situation as diminishing returns on a flame war about the editions. The more fuel you use, the more the fires are stoked and the higher the flames fly, so it apparently is, right now, a much bigger split in the fan base than it was 10 years ago. I remember loads of people that were at the very least concerned about the state of the game after the release of 3E, but these people either were eventually won over or got tired from the flame wars. The situation appears more serious now. But, then again, this is mostly based on opinion, hearsay and anecdotal evidence, so YMMV... [/QUOTE]

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