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Alisttair
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 Posted - 23 Dec 2009 : 15:15:59
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I guess I don't see it that way. Comparing the Realms to food at a restaurant is a bit overdramatic for me.
I have to agree here. I can see the point of the restaurant (I've dropped a few restaurants that stopped serving something I like), but comparing the realms to a restaurant is like comparing apples to oranges...or even more like apples to diffrent types of paint. |
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Julian Grimm
Seeker
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Posted - 23 Dec 2009 : 18:10:01
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Or an apple to a working computer. ;)
Seriously, I see what he is saying. If somewhere I like is going to change radically for the worst I am not returning. There have been restaurants I have done this with, TV shows, book series and other things that done something so major that it cannot be ignored and I have to do something. This new FR is like that. |
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lowtech
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 23 Dec 2009 : 23:40:56
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Originally posted by Matt James
I guess I don't see it that way. Comparing the Realms to food at a restaurant is a bit overdramatic for me.
Meh. It might be a case of comparing apples to oranges (what metaphor isn't?), but hardly over-dramatic; few people have a geeky emotional attachment to their favorite restaurant, so if anything the metaphor understates the point. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 00:19:30
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I dig the analogy, too. It's just another way of saying that if a company isn't giving us what we want, they can't expect to retain our business.
Speaking entirely for myself, I don't feel that there is anything I can do, productive or otherwise, to keep the world going. Sure, I could buy the new material, but that would be giving money for something that in my opinion is not worth it. In short, the only thing I can do is vote with my money -- and I am. I went from spending a good amount of money on WotC products to spending none. In the last 16 months, WotC has gotten maybe $15 from me. I was giving them that much every month, if not every couple of weeks, for 15+ years before that.
And I'm not willing to desert the Realms, either. That's why I'm still here, why I still have a bunch of Realms material, and why I still intend to replace everything I've not gotten around to replacing, yet. But I can not support the new version of the Realms when there is next to nothing I like about it. I don't care if I'm in a minority or a majority on it -- my opinion is that the Realms of 4E is not the same as any earlier version, and that all of the elements I loved in prior versions are gone.
It's not living in the past -- I'm slowly getting more and more into Golarion, something brand new.
It's not refusing to accept change -- I accepted all the changes, with varying degrees of regard, from the ToT up until the end of 3E.
So I agree with Tasker. And I'll go a bit further on his analogy: I go to a restuarant for the food, not for the building. When I don't like the food, the building has no appeal for me.
If you dig what WotC is selling, by all means, enjoy it. Me, I'm going to give my money to someone who gives me what I want. If WotC decides to put those things I loved back into the Realms, they'll again get money from me. But not until then. |
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Julian Grimm
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Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 01:03:54
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For me, there is so much material I don't have and novels I have not read that I can still be buying 'new' material and not feel lost. The change to the world saddens me but I hold out hope that if WOTC sees the backlash they may try to correct it. I'm not holding my breath though.
But, with the material I have and some creativity I can keep the Realms going forever at my table. |
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A Reset to the Grey Box
