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<blockquote data-quote="Composer99" data-source="post: 9112222" data-attributes="member: 7030042">Dunno if it's come up earlier in the thread, but if the One playtest is any indication, D&amp;D could stand to learn more about how to figure out who is playing their game and why from video games. E.g. video game design teams have discerned that players aren't always very good at consciously articulating what they do or don't like about a game, and so have come up with methodologies to figure that kind of stuff out. I suspect the Magic: the Gathering unit does do this kind of stuff, and with far better sophistication now than it did in the Spike-Johnny-TImmy days.For instance if, as I have asserted elsewhere, 5e has been enormously successful because it has done a better job than any previous version of the game at facilitating the kind of gameplay that its largest player constituencies want to play, then proper player research would at minmum help make it a better-designed game, and maximally might actually make it more successful in either the short term or the long haul (or both). Such research would also probably make D&amp;D better at reconciling - or at least managing - the competing preferences and demands of different constituencies - probably not unlike how dedicated raiders versus PvPers versus casual guildies versus casual solitaire players are all different WoW player constituencies whose preferences are also sometimes at odds with one another and which WoW sometimes has to reconcile or manage as part of its design.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Composer99, post: 9112222, member: 7030042"] Dunno if it's come up earlier in the thread, but if the One playtest is any indication, D&D could stand to learn more about [I]how to figure out who is playing their game and why [/I]from video games. E.g. video game design teams have discerned that players aren't always very good at consciously articulating what they do or don't like about a game, and so have come up with methodologies to figure that kind of stuff out. I suspect the Magic: the Gathering unit [I]does [/I]do this kind of stuff, and with far better sophistication now than it did in the Spike-Johnny-TImmy days. For instance if, as I have asserted elsewhere, 5e has been enormously successful because it has done a better job than any previous version of the game at facilitating the kind of gameplay that its largest player constituencies want to play, then proper player research would at minmum help make it a better-designed game, and maximally might actually make it more successful in either the short term or the long haul (or both). Such research would also probably make D&D better at reconciling - or at least managing - the competing preferences and demands of different constituencies - probably not unlike how dedicated raiders versus PvPers versus casual guildies versus casual solitaire players are all different WoW player constituencies whose preferences are also sometimes at odds with one another and which WoW sometimes has to reconcile or manage as part of its design. [/QUOTE]

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