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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6564694"><p>I disagree completely. The ability to find a table to play 4th at was absolutely horrendous, and I liked 4th! Aside from a couple good friends who entertained me DMing it and <em>one</em> who also liked it, the only time I ever found a 4e group was through Encounters. My consumption of D&D products dropped, my interest in future products dropped, my desire to find a table and wade through the armies of anti-4e-ism dropped. I've had discussions with other people who had the same experiences. That is a net NEGATIVE impact on the hobby: fewer games played, fewer people playing, fewer people buying, fewer people enjoying the hobby.</p><p></p><p>Reducing the argument to "If it doesn't completely annihilate D&D then it has no effect." is a sort of black and white position that makes discussion here impossible. </p><p></p><p>Similar experiences now doubt can be found in any edition, though it is usually not the edition's fault, it's either a top-down effect (WOTC pushing a new product over everything else and alienating customers) or a bottom-up effect of the players doing the same.</p><p></p><p>Extending "the hobby" to include every RPG on the market waters down the value of your argument as to meaninglessness. Sure, there will always be RPGs out there, but to this day I've never had any interest in a LOT of them. Maybe my window of enjoyable RPGs is narrow, but I doubt that everyone will simply play whatever system is available when their preferred systems are unavailable.</p><p></p><p>Damage CAN be done to the hobby that doesn't result in it's untimely demise. Keeping arguments focused also helps with discussion. Trying to quantify how much damage WOTC does to all of RPGs in forever is somewhat hard considering they only publish one, even if a popular one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6564694"] I disagree completely. The ability to find a table to play 4th at was absolutely horrendous, and I liked 4th! Aside from a couple good friends who entertained me DMing it and [I]one[/I] who also liked it, the only time I ever found a 4e group was through Encounters. My consumption of D&D products dropped, my interest in future products dropped, my desire to find a table and wade through the armies of anti-4e-ism dropped. I've had discussions with other people who had the same experiences. That is a net NEGATIVE impact on the hobby: fewer games played, fewer people playing, fewer people buying, fewer people enjoying the hobby. Reducing the argument to "If it doesn't completely annihilate D&D then it has no effect." is a sort of black and white position that makes discussion here impossible. Similar experiences now doubt can be found in any edition, though it is usually not the edition's fault, it's either a top-down effect (WOTC pushing a new product over everything else and alienating customers) or a bottom-up effect of the players doing the same. Extending "the hobby" to include every RPG on the market waters down the value of your argument as to meaninglessness. Sure, there will always be RPGs out there, but to this day I've never had any interest in a LOT of them. Maybe my window of enjoyable RPGs is narrow, but I doubt that everyone will simply play whatever system is available when their preferred systems are unavailable. Damage CAN be done to the hobby that doesn't result in it's untimely demise. Keeping arguments focused also helps with discussion. Trying to quantify how much damage WOTC does to all of RPGs in forever is somewhat hard considering they only publish one, even if a popular one. [/QUOTE]
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