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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8701491" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't really agree. It's obviously more towards the Witcher/Dark Fantasy end of things, and by your own logic, Warcraft is indistinguishable from D&D, D&D is indistinguishable from Warhammer, LotR is indistinguishable from D&D, Wheel of Time is indistinguishable from any of them, and so on, which is, I would suggest is obviously not true. It would probably have been true 20 years ago, when the core audience for this stuff was a lot less familiar with fantasy, being a bunch of staid Boomers and sulky Gen Xers, but we're not dealing with the 18-49 audience of 2000, we're dealing with the 18-49 audience of 2022, who is vastly more familiar with fantasy and who has pretty different tastes, being primarily Millennials and Gen Z. A ton of them grew up playing WoW or Warhammer, loads of them play D&D, and pretty much all of them would be insulted by the idea that they're so unsavvy as to be unable to distinguish the various IPs (they're vastly more IP-savvy than previous generations in general, even). Whereas a lot of Gen Xers (and Boomers) would be downright smug about their own inability to distinguish Warcraft and D&D! (I mean some of these guys are smug about being unable to distinguish Marvel and DC! That's more Boomer than Gen X I admit). I know you've seen that attitude - it used to be very common. It used to make you cooler if you didn't know the difference. But for younger generations? It just makes you seem a bit thick/unsavvy.</blockquote>

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