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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 5284913" data-attributes="member: 813">Sorry I'm late but I find the comparisons with Monopoly fascinating. On boardgamegeek, a website devote to all forms of boardgaming, Monopoly is generally reviled not so much for its rules (although its rules are pretty annoying) but because of what it does to people whose only experience with boardgames is a game like Monopoly.Many folks &quot;hate&quot; boardgames because of their bad experiences with house-ruled Monopoly. By the book, Monopoly should play to completion in 60-90 minutes but with the &quot;standard&quot; house rules, Monopoly can last 3+ hours. Combine this long duration with early elimination and runaway winner and you have a game that quickly loses any fun it had after the first hour or so (except for that runaway winner).See this is where you differ from the vast majority of Monopoly players. Most people hear &quot;want to play a boardgame?&quot; and immediately think of never-ending games of Monopoly where it was a grind to get to the end of the game. Most games of &quot;traditional&quot; Monopoly end with the last 2-3 remaining players conceding the game to the obvious runaway winner. So while a game of Monopoly might start out fun, it rarely ends fun.In the context of boardgaming in general, Monopoly has caused far more harm to the boargame hobby than it has caused good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 5284913, member: 813"] Sorry I'm late but I find the comparisons with Monopoly fascinating. On boardgamegeek, a website devote to all forms of boardgaming, Monopoly is generally reviled not so much for its rules (although its rules are pretty annoying) but because of what it does to people whose only experience with boardgames is a game like Monopoly. Many folks "hate" boardgames because of their bad experiences with house-ruled Monopoly. By the book, Monopoly should play to completion in 60-90 minutes but with the "standard" house rules, Monopoly can last 3+ hours. Combine this long duration with early elimination and runaway winner and you have a game that quickly loses any fun it had after the first hour or so (except for that runaway winner). See this is where you differ from the vast majority of Monopoly players. Most people hear "want to play a boardgame?" and immediately think of never-ending games of Monopoly where it was a grind to get to the end of the game. Most games of "traditional" Monopoly end with the last 2-3 remaining players conceding the game to the obvious runaway winner. So while a game of Monopoly might start out fun, it rarely ends fun. In the context of boardgaming in general, Monopoly has caused far more harm to the boargame hobby than it has caused good. [/QUOTE]

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