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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6161607" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>Yup. That's a fragment. I meant to write: "Hasbro doesn't seem to be maintaining the tie between folks' play experiences and the brand."</p><p></p><p>Some folks may be excited about D&DNext, but I find it to be a bit meh. I signed up for downloads, and looked at the first two or three, but haven't been able to keep up my interest. I could be projecting my lack of excitement in regards to D&DNext to the brand as a whole, but you might be projecting your excitement in a similar fashion. Hard for me to tell. (I think I *still* want a condensed, simplified, corrected version of 3.5E, which I personally found 4E not to be. I don't see D&DNext quite moving in that direction.)</p><p></p><p>Not sure what I was thinking when I listed the other games. They do show that there is a lot of competition. Considering how many books Fantasy Flight has put out in the last few years in 40K RPGs (OK, OK, the count needs to be cut in half due to duplication), that's a pretty hefty output, with rather high quality. The bar for D&DNext has been set very high. But there is something else going on here. I really don't think of D&D when I play an MMO. The product relationships are there, they just don't seem to have a strong affinity. To me, the center for RPG's seems to have shifted.</p><p></p><p>There might not be anything that Hasbro can do. The day where D&D sat at the center of RPG activity may have passed. Now, the brand may still have a value for selling products in a D&D family: Some RPG, some movies / cartoons / comics, some books, some board games, some social games, but then we are back to a question of what does the brand mean? Is it an RPG brand, or a fantasy gaming and story line brand?</p><p></p><p>I do think that Hasbro needs to revitalize the RPG part of the brand with a program that has more people actively playing the game and connecting to their social activities. Say, events at stores with ties to social media and books. That might be possible, but maybe not, not even with a solid team.</p><p></p><p>Thx</p><p></p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6161607, member: 13107"] Yup. That's a fragment. I meant to write: "Hasbro doesn't seem to be maintaining the tie between folks' play experiences and the brand." Some folks may be excited about D&DNext, but I find it to be a bit meh. I signed up for downloads, and looked at the first two or three, but haven't been able to keep up my interest. I could be projecting my lack of excitement in regards to D&DNext to the brand as a whole, but you might be projecting your excitement in a similar fashion. Hard for me to tell. (I think I *still* want a condensed, simplified, corrected version of 3.5E, which I personally found 4E not to be. I don't see D&DNext quite moving in that direction.) Not sure what I was thinking when I listed the other games. They do show that there is a lot of competition. Considering how many books Fantasy Flight has put out in the last few years in 40K RPGs (OK, OK, the count needs to be cut in half due to duplication), that's a pretty hefty output, with rather high quality. The bar for D&DNext has been set very high. But there is something else going on here. I really don't think of D&D when I play an MMO. The product relationships are there, they just don't seem to have a strong affinity. To me, the center for RPG's seems to have shifted. There might not be anything that Hasbro can do. The day where D&D sat at the center of RPG activity may have passed. Now, the brand may still have a value for selling products in a D&D family: Some RPG, some movies / cartoons / comics, some books, some board games, some social games, but then we are back to a question of what does the brand mean? Is it an RPG brand, or a fantasy gaming and story line brand? I do think that Hasbro needs to revitalize the RPG part of the brand with a program that has more people actively playing the game and connecting to their social activities. Say, events at stores with ties to social media and books. That might be possible, but maybe not, not even with a solid team. Thx TomB [/QUOTE]
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