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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6344113" data-attributes="member: 91777">I think there's a bunch of assumptions being made here. First of all, do 11 year olds really buy things this way anymore? I know when we were kids you had to hoard your hard-earned allowance for months to get something like this. But these days kids are begging their parents to buy them XBoxes with games that are $60 a pop. Presumably even a fairly expensive boxed-set would seem cheap by comparison to their much-put-upon parents.I feel like there are assumptions being made with these boxed sets that things work the same way as they used to when the people making the boxed sets, and that is dangerous. Conversely, I also feel like these starter sets are made to appeal to nostalgic grognards, perhaps more than they are to actual new players (see someone else's comment about how the art inside being the same as the cover art was a callback to the original boxed set, a reference no kid could possibly care about).</blockquote>