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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9170365" data-attributes="member: 6877472">It's been well documented that people in different countries play games differently.&nbsp; A great example was when competitive American Magic: The Gathering players encountered Japanese players in a major tournament- the American players were running lean, highly focused and tuned decks designed to win as fast as possible.&nbsp; The Japanese players were happy to assemble strange Rube Goldbergian combos- one player gave himself thousands of life points (as I recall).&nbsp; When pressed if he had a way to actually win, it was found he didn't- he lost, the American player won, and the Japanese player didn't seem to mind one bit.Which I suppose is another issue when designing a game for a global market- if most players from country A love Fighters, and represent your (current) largest player base, but you really want to break into the market of country B, and the people there think Druids are the best thing since sliced bread, maybe the answer is to buff Druids- you already have the happy Fighter players in country A, after all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9170365, member: 6877472"] It's been well documented that people in different countries play games differently. A great example was when competitive American Magic: The Gathering players encountered Japanese players in a major tournament- the American players were running lean, highly focused and tuned decks designed to win as fast as possible. The Japanese players were happy to assemble strange Rube Goldbergian combos- one player gave himself thousands of life points (as I recall). When pressed if he had a way to actually win, it was found he didn't- he lost, the American player won, and the Japanese player didn't seem to mind one bit. Which I suppose is another issue when designing a game for a global market- if most players from country A love Fighters, and represent your (current) largest player base, but you really want to break into the market of country B, and the people there think Druids are the best thing since sliced bread, maybe the answer is to buff Druids- you already have the happy Fighter players in country A, after all. [/QUOTE]

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