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<blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 1537537" data-attributes="member: 168">I think that it is factionalizing - something like modern news. When I was younger - everyone watched the same evening news at 6 PM. It was the only news to be had - we all shared a common experience. Now we have access to not just 6 channels of nothing but news, we also have the traditional evening news, plus a sports news station, plus a weather news station, plus news websites and alerts, plus news radio. Now we have become discerning. Once it was JUST the news, now there is some difference between FOXnews and CNN. The market forces to choose a flavor like modern RPGs or Fantasy Lit forces us to make choices. We cannot read everything. Heck, we probably can't even read everything d20 much less RPG.We also have the younger generation - I saw my first computer when I was 16 and my first video game (other than pinball) when I was 12. My 3 year old boy comes to the &quot;Puter to check ME-Mail&quot; with his daddy. Instant access to fantasy in the form of MMORGs, computers, Gameboys, and VCR/DVD has to have made an impact on the hobby. We had to wait until Sunday afternoon to get Kung-Fu theater - no matter how much we wanted to see it. What did you do saturday in anticipation? You donned the towel and went out and jumped off of the roof - or played cowboys and indians or cops and robbers. We just don't do that as a society any longer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eosin the Red, post: 1537537, member: 168"] I think that it is factionalizing - something like modern news. When I was younger - everyone watched the same evening news at 6 PM. It was the only news to be had - we all shared a common experience. Now we have access to not just 6 channels of nothing but news, we also have the traditional evening news, plus a sports news station, plus a weather news station, plus news websites and alerts, plus news radio. Now we have become discerning. Once it was JUST the news, now there is some difference between FOXnews and CNN. The market forces to choose a flavor like modern RPGs or Fantasy Lit forces us to make choices. We cannot read everything. Heck, we probably can't even read everything d20 much less RPG. We also have the younger generation - I saw my first computer when I was 16 and my first video game (other than pinball) when I was 12. My 3 year old boy comes to the "Puter to check ME-Mail" with his daddy. Instant access to fantasy in the form of MMORGs, computers, Gameboys, and VCR/DVD has to have made an impact on the hobby. We had to wait until Sunday afternoon to get Kung-Fu theater - no matter how much we wanted to see it. What did you do saturday in anticipation? You donned the towel and went out and jumped off of the roof - or played cowboys and indians or cops and robbers. We just don't do that as a society any longer. [/QUOTE]

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