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

[billd91]

Nobody but you is talking about ignoring all emotional attachment. So, I find this to be a bit of a non sequitur.

Gotta consider more than game mechanics.

 

[Umbran]

Gotta consider more than game mechanics.

If you want to build a market out of holders of decade-old grudges, that's your prerogative. Expecting others to do so seems a bit much.

 

[billd91]

If you want to build a market out of holders of decade-old grudges, that's your prerogative. Expecting others to do so seems a bit much.

If you’re not going to concern yourself with people‘s emotional connections with a product, positive and negative, you’re not listening to your market.

 

[niklinna]

Oh, come on. Everything is an attack on 5E.

 

[Deset Gled]

Oh, come on. Everything is an attack on 5E.

I also have come to understand that no one, literally no person ever in all of history, likes 5e.

 

[CleverNickName]

Well according to the same eleven people on EN World, 5th Edition D&D really isn't the best-selling edition of the game of all time. It isn't the most widely-played edition either, and it certainly isn't outselling all other tabletop RPGs on the market combined. Nope. No sir. It's a hot unplayable mess and nobody likes it, says those same eleven people.

 

[Hussar]

the feelings being communicated through them are completely subjective and valid.

But, the only feeling being communicated is "I don't like this". Which is fine and dandy, but, not really a very good reason for why everyone else should also dislike it and it shouldn't be put on pizza.

 

[niklinna]

Wait I thought everybody loved it and it was best just like jm.

 

[Hussar]

If you’re not going to concern yourself with people‘s emotional connections with a product, positive and negative, you’re not listening to your market.

But how many?

I'm not being facetious here. How many people's emotional connections with a product do I have to listen to?

And what if those emotional connections are tied to things that I really don't feel comfortable putting in my product?

Frankly, people having emotional connections to a product is largely the problem here. If someone's emotional connection to pineapple pizza is so strong that they will DEMAND that no pizza restaurant, including the ones they don't even eat at EVER sell pineapple on pizza, then, well, those folks can go soak their heads.

"I don't like it" is perfectly fine. "I don't like it so I don't eat it" is also perfectly fine. "I don't like it so YOU can't eat it" is never fine.

 

[AnotherGuy]

But how many?

I'm not being facetious here. How many people's emotional connections with a product do I have to listen to?

And what if those emotional connections are tied to things that I really don't feel comfortable putting in my product?

Frankly, people having emotional connections to a product is largely the problem here. If someone's emotional connection to pineapple pizza is so strong that they will DEMAND that no pizza restaurant, including the ones they don't even eat at EVER sell pineapple on pizza, then, well, those folks can go soak their heads.

"I don't like it" is perfectly fine. "I don't like it so I don't eat it" is also perfectly fine. "I don't like it so YOU can't eat it" is never fine.

4e, Vistani, Noble Savage Kit, Kender, Orcs, Vampire the Masquerade, Drow, Orcs of Thar, Half-Orcs, Oriental Adventures...etc
Some people have emotional connections with some or all of these products. Many of us had to listen to persons who had emotional connections. If I recall correctly you were crusading for some of these emotional connections.

Emotional connections with a product is a thing.