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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5261506" data-attributes="member: 2067">That's sort of what I'm talking about, though. If they're both pink, but one is called "kewl stylez babi," and another is called "duchess's blush," and then the company phases out one for the other, whoever liked the other is going to feel like the new pink isn't what they want to have out of nail polish.Or, in another parable, a dude uses a deodorant that he likes. In part, he likes it because, like every good consumer, he identifies with what he purchases, and the casing has a sort of "old wood" look, it's name is Deep Forest, or something else quietly masculine, and it smells a little musky and reminds him a bit of his father, while being distinct. Then, the company changes and starts to market their product like AXE, with XTREME SPORTS DUDES and idiot commercials about how women fall out of the sky for the scent and now they've changed the name of the deodorant to something like NIGHTSPIKE. It's the same scent, but it's not the same experience, and he doesn't identify with this new face at all. So he tells his friends he thinks the new commercials are dumb and that Deep Forest was fine the way it was. The fact that it's just some superficial terminology changes doesn't mean that the product -- that the rule -- reflects what they want. In fact, if they see the things as basically identical, it becomes a superficial difference for superficial reasons, they realize how superficial it is to them, and they become disenchanted with both options. Lady goes to get red nail polish. Dude buys some hippie Whole Foods brand instead (and then grows a beard, but that's neither here nor there). They may be paying attention to what interests them. What interests them just happens to not be the comparative differences between two powers. They can still be interested and engaged with in other elements of the game, such as the princess that needs savin' from the dragon.Different things for different players, but remember that classes are fantasy archetypes. They're picking up on the fact that the Ranger is Legolas and that the Warlock is basically like a mythical witch. They're playing one if they want to shoot arrows all over the place into everything, they're playing the other if they want to deceive and coerce. Then they see that, deception or arrows, it all comes down to "pew pew pew" on your chosen mark.At least, that was more or less my path. Sure. But that's still just on paper. What am I doing in play? "pew pew pew" in both cases.</blockquote>

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