The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Cruentus]

Is Hasbro/WotC somehow the only corporation some folks interact with?

I don't interact with any company I buy from, usually. Aside from buying from them. They put out a product, I buy it or I don't. I follow the "community" usually on forums or blogs, or YT occasionally, and that's about it (and that is coming off of about a 30 year run of being in the "Games Workshop Hobby (tm)", you know, the only hobby that exists. When I realized I wasn't their target audience, I left, and don't buy their product anymore. When I realized after multiple years of DnD that I wasn't their target audience either, I moved on.

Most publicly traded companies are out to satisfy shareholders, and that's about it. Satisfying customers, if that happens at the same time: happy days! I just try not to let myself get too emotionally involved in my hobbies - even those I've been playing for 30 years on one hand, and 40 or so on the other. I just move on and enjoy them in other ways - going back to OSE, trying out new systems, using my old miniatures in "miniature agnostic" or more thematic games, etc.

 

[Staffan]

I suspect that's sort-of right.

That they're still getting something out of the game, and at least internally, its a 50+1% thing where its more worth staying in, for whatever reason, than getting out.

But that doesn't mean they really, really don't like the thing(s) they're complaining about, its just there's a counterweight they're not discussing.

(I just pulled the plug on GMing for a certain group I'd done that for for a long time (and in fact GMing at all at least for a few months), and I probably should have done it a fair while ago, but I was still getting things out of it I didn't want to lose; I just finally concluded that 50+1 wasn't there anymore).

For me, it's often the case that I like a game overall, but there's something about it that nags me. One example is how Pathfinder 2 is geared toward requiring specialization in skills at higher levels in order to have a decent chance of success at level-appropriate tasks, and even specialized characters rarely get above 75% chance of success (in other words, you'll never be Parker or Hardison). If I didn't like the rest of the game, I wouldn't care. It'd just be one more game that doesn't let its PCs be awesome. But PF2 has a lot of good stuff in it, but it could be better.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I always wonder about that when people say hasbro/wotc is a horrible bad evil kicked a puppy company

Or, from another angle: Yes, of course they are. They all are.

 

[overgeeked]

The aversion people have to silliness and levity is weird. Not everything needs to be serious grimdark business. Lighten up. You’re sitting around a table with other adults pretending to be elves and wizards. The hobby is inherently silly. Get over it.

 

[prabe]

The aversion people have to silliness and levity is weird. Not everything needs to be serious grimdark business. Lighten up. You’re sitting around a table with other adults pretending to be elves and wizards. The hobby is inherently silly. Get over it.

I figure so long as everyone at a given table is taking the game approximately as seriously as everyone else--whether in the narrative sense or the game sense--then things at that table are more or less copacetic.

 

[prabe]

Unrelated: What I came here to say was, "Please, stop posting."

 

[Ryujin]

The aversion people have to silliness and levity is weird. Not everything needs to be serious grimdark business. Lighten up. You’re sitting around a table with other adults pretending to be elves and wizards. The hobby is inherently silly. Get over it.

If I ran a game and it didn't devolve to virtually rolling on the floor laughing, at some point, then it wasn't a very successful session.

 

[Cadence]

I'm not sure, but I really hope not Tol Morwen. That would be depressing!

 

[payn]

Watching Dune 2021 and really wished that the banquet scene had been included.

 

[overgeeked]

Literal video evidence you’re wrong and you’ll still keep arguing. That’s peak internet.