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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5913950" data-attributes="member: 82106">Except of course none of this is relevant if you look out there at the actual games that are successful and WHY they are successful. They succeed because they create a certain specific game. They succeed because there are SOME PEOPLE who like that game and that type of game allows them to tap into their creativity and have fun. Is Paizo running around worrying about what 5% of the people who really dislike PF are thinking? Of course not. They're busy being creative with the toolset they have. Maybe it won't capture ALL players, of course it won't. Making a tepid generic mess and spending all your time basketweaving 900 different variations of spell casting instead of making good adventures and settings and putting out cool strongly-themed stuff is not a recipe for success. So, yeah, sometimes you really actually do want to just say &quot;you 5%, we like you, but we're just not catering to you with this product.&quot; Either the people in that 5% can come into the tent and budge a little or they can play what they do like. Sure, MAYBE it means some other people will play other stuff too, but it works both ways. A lot of the time, when there are enough people that DO like the game you're making they'll pull the others along too. I think it is safest to say that in the long run 5% is 5% and that's about the size of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5913950, member: 82106"] Except of course none of this is relevant if you look out there at the actual games that are successful and WHY they are successful. They succeed because they create a certain specific game. They succeed because there are SOME PEOPLE who like that game and that type of game allows them to tap into their creativity and have fun. Is Paizo running around worrying about what 5% of the people who really dislike PF are thinking? Of course not. They're busy being creative with the toolset they have. Maybe it won't capture ALL players, of course it won't. Making a tepid generic mess and spending all your time basketweaving 900 different variations of spell casting instead of making good adventures and settings and putting out cool strongly-themed stuff is not a recipe for success. So, yeah, sometimes you really actually do want to just say "you 5%, we like you, but we're just not catering to you with this product." Either the people in that 5% can come into the tent and budge a little or they can play what they do like. Sure, MAYBE it means some other people will play other stuff too, but it works both ways. A lot of the time, when there are enough people that DO like the game you're making they'll pull the others along too. I think it is safest to say that in the long run 5% is 5% and that's about the size of it. [/QUOTE]

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