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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7841461" data-attributes="member: 15700">An ad populum can be a fallacy. But it doesn’t mean it has to be. That’s why context matters. And other factors we can look at. Like satisfaction surveys. By looking at all of the data, 5e is popular not just because it’s popular, and can be said it’s good design regardless of how popular it is. After all, every edition has the D&amp;D branding, but some editions did better and worse than others for popularity. Ultimately people play games they enjoy. And the bottom line is that D&amp;D had a directive as its vision statement to be the #1 game again. In that regard, it appears that requirement was a resounding design success.so I don’t put much weight into the argument that we shouldn’t use popularity as a factor because an ad populum fallacy is a thing. Sometimes.&nbsp; We need to look at all things together, and understand the project requirements. And by doing that, popularity is a valid metric to use</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7841461, member: 15700"] An ad populum [I]can[/I] be a fallacy. But it doesn’t mean it [I]has[/I] to be. That’s why context matters. And other factors we can look at. Like satisfaction surveys. By looking at all of the data, 5e is popular not just because it’s popular, and can be said it’s good design regardless of how popular it is. After all, every edition has the D&D branding, but some editions did better and worse than others for popularity. Ultimately people play games they enjoy. And the bottom line is that D&D had a directive as its vision statement to be the #1 game again. In that regard, it appears that requirement was a resounding design success. so I don’t put much weight into the argument that we shouldn’t use popularity as a factor because an ad populum fallacy is a thing. Sometimes. We need to look at all things together, and understand the project requirements. And by doing that, popularity is a valid metric to use [/QUOTE]

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