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D&D 5E What is Quality?
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FrogReaver
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This is 2022. Words mean whatever we want them to.
I'm running an indie word processing package that I published myself. It only sold six hundred copies so it must be terrible. ;-)
payn
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Though, regardless of how you mean it, every word is quality because it means something to somebody.This is 2022. Words mean whatever we want them to.
Maxperson
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Yes.
Depending on what you are looking at, either one is better quality than the other.
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As you can see, Kia is number 8 on the most reliable brands, while Ferrari is number 1 on the least reliable brands. Looking at reliability, Kia blows Ferrari out of the water in a quality comparison. Looking at sports cars, though, Ferrari wins quality hands down since Kia doesn't even make the list. Or if you want to compare top speeds, Ferrari wins quality again.
Popularity is not a quality of something. Price is, though. Start selling Ferrari's for $17,000, the price of a Kia Spectra, and you will see the number of Ferraris on the road skyrocket, despite it's unreliability rating.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Growth = becoming more popular. You're still talking about popularity and not a quality or qualities of the product. That growth might be because of a number of high quality aspects of 5e, or it might be because 5e is just gaining popularity since it's the first edition to be accepted into the main stream rather than just being the province of gamer geeks, which has nothing to do with quality at all.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Yes multiple things can be quality products, but since popularity and growth are not qualities of something, on what are you basing D&D 5e's quality?
An image is not an argument. It is an implication of an argument that you then don't have to defend, because technically you didn't make it. It may make you feel good, but makes your point unfalsifiable - nobody can argue against you, because you haven't actually said anything. Poor rhetorical form, that.
It is legitimate to speak of "the game's popularity" - which admits that the popularity belongs to the game, and is therefore a quality of the game. It isn't an intrinsic quality, but nobody here has made a cogent argument that only intrinsic qualities are valid for discussion.
The thing that is D&D does not merely exist within a rulebook. D&D is explicitly a social activity. You cannot fully consider the qualities of a thing outside the context in which is is actually used - that would be like trying to judge quality of a car without considering the terrain over which the car is to be driven. The social aspects of the game, including its popularity, should be open to consideration.
Why? Because, when you are standing in the store trying to decide which rulebook to buy, the question, "How hard will it be to get people to play this?" is a legitimate factor in one's decision.
The question is poorly formed. I have more drinking glasses in my home than frying pans - does that mean I don't have a good frying pan?
Quality cannot be considered free of the context of purpose.
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