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Why is this board so down on 4E critics?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4022984" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>That inclines me to believe that there was an e-mail. However, what the e-mail actually said remains very much in doubt. I have yet to see any direct quotations from the e-mail in question, and experience has taught me that people will take a letter that says "We hope you like our shiny toy" and twist that into "You will be subject to ten years' hard labor if you criticize our shiny toy."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay, see, this is exactly the sort of thing that triggers dogpiles. In fact, you hit three of the major dogpile flags in that one paragraph:</p><p></p><p>--Comparison of 4E to World of Warcraft.</p><p>--Claim that 4E "won't be D&D anymore."</p><p>--Claim that 4E is specifically targeting "younger gamers" at the expense of older ones (implication that gamers who like 4E are less mature).</p><p></p><p>With bonus points for not providing any specifics in support of your arguments.</p><p></p><p>All of these have been done to death already, to the point where you can predict that every single new tidbit of information about 4E will elicit these responses. This irritates a lot of forumgoers who are tired of seeing this stuff endlessly re-hashed, particularly when it hijacks threads where there's an interesting discussion going on. Moreover, because they've seen it so many times, they have their counter-arguments honed and ready, so they react to that irritation with a flood of biting replies.</p><p></p><p>I daresay the anti-4E folks could list off some dogpile triggers of their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4022984, member: 58197"] That inclines me to believe that there was an e-mail. However, what the e-mail actually said remains very much in doubt. I have yet to see any direct quotations from the e-mail in question, and experience has taught me that people will take a letter that says "We hope you like our shiny toy" and twist that into "You will be subject to ten years' hard labor if you criticize our shiny toy." Okay, see, this is exactly the sort of thing that triggers dogpiles. In fact, you hit three of the major dogpile flags in that one paragraph: --Comparison of 4E to World of Warcraft. --Claim that 4E "won't be D&D anymore." --Claim that 4E is specifically targeting "younger gamers" at the expense of older ones (implication that gamers who like 4E are less mature). With bonus points for not providing any specifics in support of your arguments. All of these have been done to death already, to the point where you can predict that every single new tidbit of information about 4E will elicit these responses. This irritates a lot of forumgoers who are tired of seeing this stuff endlessly re-hashed, particularly when it hijacks threads where there's an interesting discussion going on. Moreover, because they've seen it so many times, they have their counter-arguments honed and ready, so they react to that irritation with a flood of biting replies. I daresay the anti-4E folks could list off some dogpile triggers of their own. [/QUOTE]
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