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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9076052" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>That's kinda the point though. Any change never has a chance to become popular. Simple inertia will keep the game static for years. Good grief, 20 years of AD&D, despite having absolutely baroque, archaic and frankly very bad mechanics but was still perfectly acceptable to the majority of gamers.</p><p></p><p>Because it doesn't have to be acceptable to the majority. It only has to be acceptable to 30% of gamers. You keep harping that rangers pass the 70% sniff test. We will never know because they never actually polled the Ranger for the release of Next. The UA version of the Ranger didn't actually look much like what was released.</p><p></p><p>But, so long as 30% of gamers don't mind the ranger, as written, it cannot change. </p><p></p><p>It's not about how popular it was in 2014. Who cares how popular it was then? Even if it did pass the 70% sniff test in 2014, we're talking about a gaming population that's what, 1/10th the size of now? But, again, despite the huge growth of the gaming population, we're beholden to those rules because the bar for making any adjustments is incredibly high. </p><p></p><p>So, we never actually get to see if a new version would be popular or not, because any change is automatically gated behind a UA - meaning that only a tiny slice of the hobby ever actually sees it - and further gated behind a very vocal body that rejects any change to the hobby.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9076052, member: 22779"] That's kinda the point though. Any change never has a chance to become popular. Simple inertia will keep the game static for years. Good grief, 20 years of AD&D, despite having absolutely baroque, archaic and frankly very bad mechanics but was still perfectly acceptable to the majority of gamers. Because it doesn't have to be acceptable to the majority. It only has to be acceptable to 30% of gamers. You keep harping that rangers pass the 70% sniff test. We will never know because they never actually polled the Ranger for the release of Next. The UA version of the Ranger didn't actually look much like what was released. But, so long as 30% of gamers don't mind the ranger, as written, it cannot change. It's not about how popular it was in 2014. Who cares how popular it was then? Even if it did pass the 70% sniff test in 2014, we're talking about a gaming population that's what, 1/10th the size of now? But, again, despite the huge growth of the gaming population, we're beholden to those rules because the bar for making any adjustments is incredibly high. So, we never actually get to see if a new version would be popular or not, because any change is automatically gated behind a UA - meaning that only a tiny slice of the hobby ever actually sees it - and further gated behind a very vocal body that rejects any change to the hobby. [/QUOTE]
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