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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9345448" data-attributes="member: 7044459">Are Zoomers aging out of the D&D market?? I was thinking the opposite. I always assumed D&D's core demographic was high-school/college aged people moving up through young professionals, which would be Gen Z. The former is the group that has the time and the passion to play the game, with the latter being the older version of the same group, but now with the spending power to buy all the content they wish they still had time to play.How old are the older Gen Alpha kids? 10? 12? I can see this generation getting into D&D, but probably mostly through the influence of older, Zoomer siblings, or Millennial parents.WotC never called me back about my application for President, but once they do I plan on cashing in on the 3e Nostalgia for 7e. Calling the initiative "Back to Back to the Dungeon"This really feels like the answer. It's a big anniversary for the game. The new books are more of a refresh than a new edition, so they're not really trying to push anything new. New gamers are going to buy into the system simply because it's the current one available. What they really want to do is try to re-capture all the old, disenfranchised customers who skipped out on 5e, and were likely to skip out on 5.5e as well. Over the last decade with the explosion of the OSR it's become obvious that this demographic is still hungry for more stuff, and they're willing to spend money. I think they're trying to give these customers something to buy, and in true Hasbro fashion that something is Nostalgia."Remember GreyHawk? Remember Melf? Remember the old D&D Cartoon?"Truly one of the greatest bag drops of our time.. She could have just shut up, and spent her days swimming in her Scrooge McDuck pool of money.. I will never understand rich people and their inability to not be public nuisances.I think this is possibly a big selling point. This is the 50th anniversary.. So they can offer nostalgia for those looking for that, they can offer history for the people looking for that, and then at the same time, to a new player who doesn't know or care about Gygax, or Greyhawk.. It can all still be used as reference material. It seems like a good choice for casting a wide net.</blockquote>

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