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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4890849" data-attributes="member: 80487">The gadgetry may be pretty darned spiffy. Maybe some people would like to buy it and the classic WHFRP game -- but they won't have that option (except to find the classic in the used-books market). The folks who prefer the long-established WHFRP are likewise out of luck ... and the publisher is out of luck in that it cannot sell what it has not got.Who is really in luck? People who did not like WHFRP in the first place! The bet, I guess, is that there are a lot of those -- and that &quot;How do you like now?&quot; will grab them.Of course, that's based on the outdated notion that this is in fact a game business we're talking about! As if Lucas were in the movie business, eh? Games, toys ... the real product is just the imagery slapped on, that somehow vaguely refers back to a time when there was an actual work of art behind the &quot;property&quot;.If people really don't give a flying fig about the game, or even about the bloody, dirty, humanly vulnerable futility that made a name for the setting ... then this is like buying a Happy Meal just for the toy. Is it really worth a hundred-dollar price tag?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 4890849, member: 80487"] The gadgetry may be pretty darned spiffy. Maybe some people would like to buy it [I]and[/I] the classic WHFRP game -- but they won't have that option (except to find the classic in the used-books market). The folks who prefer the long-established WHFRP are likewise out of luck ... and the publisher is out of luck in that it cannot sell what it has not got. Who is really [I]in[/I] luck? People who did not like WHFRP in the first place! The bet, I guess, is that there are a lot of those -- and that "How do you like now?" will grab them. Of course, that's based on the outdated notion that this is in fact a [I]game[/I] business we're talking about! As if Lucas were in the [I]movie[/I] business, eh? Games, toys ... the real product is just the imagery slapped on, that somehow vaguely refers back to a time when there was an actual work of art behind the "property". If people really don't give a flying fig about the game, or even about the bloody, dirty, humanly vulnerable futility that [I]made a name[/I] for the setting ... then this is like buying a Happy Meal just for the toy. Is it really worth a hundred-dollar price tag? [/QUOTE]

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