Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
The Mainstreaming of D&D
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8333617" data-attributes="member: 7015698"><p>Personally, what I'm more worried about isn't more people playing our game... it's how the big wigs decide to orient the game. I'd like to call it the 'Evergreenification' of a brand.</p><p></p><p>You saw it in Transformers. Between the end of G1 and the 2007 movie, we had a bevy of new characters constantly introduced, experiments like Beast Wars or Beast Machines or the Unicron Trilogy... then, when the first Michael Bay movie was a hit, we entered a dark period where every store was just inundated with Bumblebee toys and nowadays, every year seems to bring about a new model of Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscream (luckily they scaled down the Hive of Bumblebees but seem to have replaced him with Sideswipe?) toys. They've been adhering to G1 designs religiously. There's no new characters anymore, just a series of rehashing of old ones.</p><p></p><p>Just a lot of appeal to nostalgia.</p><p></p><p>Same thing with Pokémon after Generation 5 failed to meet expectations and nostalgic fans threw a TANTRUM at not being able to use the same Pokémon for the billionth times, Generation 6 was full of nostalgia with handing you Gen 1 starters and Santalune Forest being the same damn map as Viridian Forest and then Gen 8 has a champion who uses a damn CHARIZARD as his ace...</p><p></p><p>And with Power Rangers, Hasbro is milking the heck out of MMPR nostalgia and then skipping straight to the Dino theme with Dino Fury. </p><p></p><p>And as soon as some piece of promotional material gets posted to social media, the conversation is ALWAYS flooded by people who have not engaged with that media property in the last 25 years and expect it to have just waited for them without changing...</p><p></p><p><strong>TL: DR</strong> I'm not affraid of people playing the game, I'm affraid of WotC stagnating in nostalgia and becoming scared of innovating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undrave, post: 8333617, member: 7015698"] Personally, what I'm more worried about isn't more people playing our game... it's how the big wigs decide to orient the game. I'd like to call it the 'Evergreenification' of a brand. You saw it in Transformers. Between the end of G1 and the 2007 movie, we had a bevy of new characters constantly introduced, experiments like Beast Wars or Beast Machines or the Unicron Trilogy... then, when the first Michael Bay movie was a hit, we entered a dark period where every store was just inundated with Bumblebee toys and nowadays, every year seems to bring about a new model of Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscream (luckily they scaled down the Hive of Bumblebees but seem to have replaced him with Sideswipe?) toys. They've been adhering to G1 designs religiously. There's no new characters anymore, just a series of rehashing of old ones. Just a lot of appeal to nostalgia. Same thing with Pokémon after Generation 5 failed to meet expectations and nostalgic fans threw a TANTRUM at not being able to use the same Pokémon for the billionth times, Generation 6 was full of nostalgia with handing you Gen 1 starters and Santalune Forest being the same damn map as Viridian Forest and then Gen 8 has a champion who uses a damn CHARIZARD as his ace... And with Power Rangers, Hasbro is milking the heck out of MMPR nostalgia and then skipping straight to the Dino theme with Dino Fury. And as soon as some piece of promotional material gets posted to social media, the conversation is ALWAYS flooded by people who have not engaged with that media property in the last 25 years and expect it to have just waited for them without changing... [B]TL: DR[/B] I'm not affraid of people playing the game, I'm affraid of WotC stagnating in nostalgia and becoming scared of innovating. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
The Mainstreaming of D&D
Top