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<blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 3727754" data-attributes="member: 53">I'd suggest the answer is both.&nbsp; Without the &quot;new player&quot; market the game will die as people stop playing for various reasons.&nbsp; Without the &quot;old player&quot; market the game won't be popular enough to continue, either,Thinking back, D&amp;D had a lot of visibility in the late 70s, early 80s.&nbsp; In the late 70s it was new and different.&nbsp; It would get a lot of newspaper articles about this new &quot;craze&quot; that was catching on/With the 80s it was visible to the public.&nbsp; We had ads such as the regularly appearing ones in comics books and a <a href="http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/61/" target="_blank">TV Commerical</a>.&nbsp; The kids in a blockbuster movie were, E.T.&nbsp; shown playing D&amp;D, and it wasn't to show they were any sort of &quot;type.&quot;&nbsp; We even got all that free press from the &quot;D&amp;D is Satanic group.&quot;&nbsp; We had some of the same sort of press has Harry Potter gets now (even if not at the same intensity).Today, if you don't play it or aren't close to someone who plays it, it's mostly used to stereotype.&nbsp; &quot;Ah, he's the sort that plays Dungeons &amp; Dragons in his parents basement.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glyfair, post: 3727754, member: 53"] I'd suggest the answer is both. Without the "new player" market the game will die as people stop playing for various reasons. Without the "old player" market the game won't be popular enough to continue, either, Thinking back, D&D had a lot of visibility in the late 70s, early 80s. In the late 70s it was new and different. It would get a lot of newspaper articles about this new "craze" that was catching on/ With the 80s it was visible to the public. We had ads such as the regularly appearing ones in comics books and a [url=http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/61/]TV Commerical[/url]. The kids in a blockbuster movie were, E.T. shown playing D&D, and it wasn't to show they were any sort of "type." We even got all that free press from the "D&D is Satanic group." We had some of the same sort of press has Harry Potter gets now (even if not at the same intensity). Today, if you don't play it or aren't close to someone who plays it, it's mostly used to stereotype. "Ah, he's the sort that plays Dungeons & Dragons in his parents basement." [/QUOTE]

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