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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8096657" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>That's from the era where Keith Parkinson managed to make Drow look like they were in a Blaxploitation movie, though, isn't it? Not exactly a time WotC want to remind people of when they're claiming Drow aren't meant to be in any way black people.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I feel like if the shoe were on the other foot here, instead of people being vaguely "Well you have to understand..."-type dismissive, there'd basically be a riot.</p><p></p><p>HeroQuest is a British game, designed by British people, which sold extremely well in Britain. It's a much bigger part of a much larger number of British people's childhoods than it is, say, Americans or Canadians, I would suggest.</p><p></p><p>Were, say, GW publishing an American game, by American designers, which was big in America, and not bothering to ship it to the US, or even provide that option, there's no way these sort of excuses would be being rolled out, imho (I mean, you may well be British, but I'm saying the general tone re: the product would have been extremely different).</p><p></p><p>It's already weird that they stripped out all the Warhammer stuff to republish HeroQuest - it's just insulting that they aren't shipping it to the country it's actually from. You say "Oh well the market will deal with it..." (i.e. "the usual channels"), but I think that's very unlikely. I suspect it will sell out pretty much instantly whenever what tiny number of units they allow for come through the "usual channels", and then British people will likely be looking at even more inflated prices as it gets resold and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8096657, member: 18"] That's from the era where Keith Parkinson managed to make Drow look like they were in a Blaxploitation movie, though, isn't it? Not exactly a time WotC want to remind people of when they're claiming Drow aren't meant to be in any way black people. I feel like if the shoe were on the other foot here, instead of people being vaguely "Well you have to understand..."-type dismissive, there'd basically be a riot. HeroQuest is a British game, designed by British people, which sold extremely well in Britain. It's a much bigger part of a much larger number of British people's childhoods than it is, say, Americans or Canadians, I would suggest. Were, say, GW publishing an American game, by American designers, which was big in America, and not bothering to ship it to the US, or even provide that option, there's no way these sort of excuses would be being rolled out, imho (I mean, you may well be British, but I'm saying the general tone re: the product would have been extremely different). It's already weird that they stripped out all the Warhammer stuff to republish HeroQuest - it's just insulting that they aren't shipping it to the country it's actually from. You say "Oh well the market will deal with it..." (i.e. "the usual channels"), but I think that's very unlikely. I suspect it will sell out pretty much instantly whenever what tiny number of units they allow for come through the "usual channels", and then British people will likely be looking at even more inflated prices as it gets resold and so on. [/QUOTE]
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