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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4935834" data-attributes="member: 19675">Re: the OP:Nobody in my extended circle of gamers has adopted 4Ed.  The only exemplar I've seen of the RW schism occurred shortly after 4Ed's release, when the clerk at one of my FLGS's chided me on my perceptions of the game.  I held my ground, and it didn't really bother me much.  I've known the guy for years- we're not buddies, but he's a kidder by nature (though serious in this case) and my skin is pretty thick.I'm not sure how other gamers might have taken it, though.Re: gamers purchasing habits by ageI'm not sure how WotC's stats should be taken.Personally, I'm 42 and I'm a Mr. Library...and over several systems (my collection is at 65+, down from 100+).  The other gamers in my group are all over 35.  Of those, most only buy D&D stuff.The thing is, most of them have responsibilities- wife, kids, car, mortgage, medical bills- that most 20somethings don't have.HOWEVER...There is another statistical force at work here.RPGs were invented by Boomers, but it was Gen X that took up the mantle of the games and made the hobby huge.  Part of that is because of the money we're willing to throw at entertainment (we save a smaller % of our income than Boomers, and a higher percentage of our purchases are for entertainment), part of that is because we were introduced to the game as kids and young teens.  RPGs grabbed our imaginations while we were still expanding our horizons.Gen Y, OTOH, is like a mutant combination of the Boomers and Gen X.  They, like Gen X, are coming into the hobby as youths.Like the Boomers, though, Gen Y is Legion- already nearly as numerous as the Boomers, they already control an amount of wealth equal to Gen X...and they don't even have all of their members in the workforce yet.Plus, if you adjust for inflation, you'd probably find that hardcover RPG books have fallen in price from the 1970s to today.  A 1Ed PHB was $12-19, depending upon where and when you bought it (I just looked at the price tags on a couple).  My 4Ed book has a cover price of about $40.  But 31 years have passed.I'm not going to look for my financial calculator at this time of night, but by way of comparison, the price of a gallon of gas has risen from 57¢ to $2.39 (or more) in the same time.IOW, WotC's numbers could just be an artifact of the fact that there are more Gen Ys than Gen Xs, and the hobby is cheaper for them than for us.Now, that still means that there are excellent reasons for them to target the 20somethings- "Gamers, Mr. Rico! Zillions of them!"- but their stats may not be telling them why with any accuracy.</blockquote>

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