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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5702867" data-attributes="member: 40166">Strong companies listen to their consumers. Strong companies with big hard-core player bases leverage that to their advantage. Huh. And I thought that nobody just went to their supermarket and picked up a Ford Mustang as an impulse buy.Again, Fruity Pebbles is a terribly unimportant buy. You buy it, and you're stuck with it for maybe a week. If you don't like it, you can throw it away and you're only out $3. If they stop producing it, you can pick from a number of similar overly sweetened cereals.PF or 4e is about $70 for the basic books, with a complete set of main books running up to several hundred dollars. If you're running it, it has quite an effect on what you'll be doing every week, and it will define what material you can easily use with your game and what's not so easy. If you're looking for a game, what game you play may end up defining who you play with. If they stop producing it, you have a tough choice of writing off your existing investment in books and going forward to the new edition or staying with an edition that will have no more material written for it.A car does not have the network effects of a game, or the cumulative effects, but is way more expensive and has way more concrete effects on your life. A car probably doesn't usually get the clan effects an RPG does because the type of car a friend drives has no effect, unlike the RPG they play, nor does it have dramatic effects on what car you can buy next, but it really is a more important purchasing decision than an RPG. Either of them stomp the Fruity Pebbles into the ground.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 5702867, member: 40166"] Strong companies listen to their consumers. Strong companies with big hard-core player bases leverage that to their advantage. Huh. And I thought that nobody just went to their supermarket and picked up a Ford Mustang as an impulse buy. Again, Fruity Pebbles is a terribly unimportant buy. You buy it, and you're stuck with it for maybe a week. If you don't like it, you can throw it away and you're only out $3. If they stop producing it, you can pick from a number of similar overly sweetened cereals. PF or 4e is about $70 for the basic books, with a complete set of main books running up to several hundred dollars. If you're running it, it has quite an effect on what you'll be doing every week, and it will define what material you can easily use with your game and what's not so easy. If you're looking for a game, what game you play may end up defining who you play with. If they stop producing it, you have a tough choice of writing off your existing investment in books and going forward to the new edition or staying with an edition that will have no more material written for it. A car does not have the network effects of a game, or the cumulative effects, but is way more expensive and has way more concrete effects on your life. A car probably doesn't usually get the clan effects an RPG does because the type of car a friend drives has no effect, unlike the RPG they play, nor does it have dramatic effects on what car you can buy next, but it really is a more important purchasing decision than an RPG. Either of them stomp the Fruity Pebbles into the ground. [/QUOTE]

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