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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8641517" data-attributes="member: 71699">RPG popularity is measured on one dimension - number of people playing it - which is objective.RPG quality is measured on many dimensions - what those are and how you weight them - which is subjective.An observed relationship between the two is that quality acts as a multiplier on marketing budget; through organic drivers like conversion, retention, and promotion. The games market follows a winner-takes-all pattern, where the top few claim a disproportionate share... again, probably through factors that multiply together such as store owners giving the top products higher prominence, or search engines showing them on page one. You can picture a relationship like thisAwareness * conversion * retention * promotion (organic) = popularity.Quality feeds into conversion (those who try it find it satisfying), retention (those who find it satisfying, continue to do so), promotion (those who continue to find it satisfying, tell others.)Commercial success delivers more funding to sustain quality, but that comes with increased expectations and constraints. Those constraints can lead to taking the safe path - the one likely to satisfy (count as &quot;high quality&quot; for) the greatest audience - which can be dissatisfying to those in cohorts that are currently minorities. There can be a feeling of oppressiveness, although I think on balance the success of 5e is creating space for other RPGs to prosper in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8641517, member: 71699"] RPG [B]popularity[/B] is measured on one dimension - number of people playing it - which is objective. RPG [B]quality[/B] is measured on many dimensions - what those are and how you weight them - which is subjective. An observed relationship between the two is that quality acts as a [I]multiplier[/I] on marketing budget; through organic drivers like conversion, retention, and promotion. The games market follows a winner-takes-all pattern, where the top few claim a disproportionate share... again, probably through factors that multiply together such as store owners giving the top products higher prominence, or search engines showing them on page one. You can picture a relationship like this [B]Awareness[/B] * [B]conversion[/B] * [B]retention[/B] * [B]promotion[/B] (organic) = [B]popularity[/B]. Quality feeds into conversion (those who try it find it satisfying), retention (those who find it satisfying, continue to do so), promotion (those who continue to find it satisfying, tell others.) Commercial success delivers more funding to sustain quality, but that comes with increased expectations and constraints. Those constraints can lead to taking the safe path - the one likely to satisfy (count as "high quality" for) the greatest audience - which can be dissatisfying to those in cohorts that are currently minorities. There can be a feeling of oppressiveness, although I think on balance the success of 5e is creating space for other RPGs to prosper in. [/QUOTE]

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