From: | Matti Aistrich <aistrich@********.hkkk.fi> |
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Subject: | RPGs on their way out? |
Date: | Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:12:23 +0300 (EET DST) |
> >Roleplaying is going out, now it's just card games. Those companies which
> >don't make card games may not survive -- just look at GDW -- which is of
> >
> >But hey, that's life, things come and go. Sad but inevitable.
>
> I disagree here, sure Magic and card games have hurt the RPG industry it's
> still going strong. Look at T$R, they've hired a bunch of new writers and
Maybe my view stems from the fact that I'm in Finland, then. The
gamestore here gets something like 1/3 of their sales (and a larger part
of their profits) from card games. The other 2/3 is made up from comics,
books, rpgs, strategy games, miniatures, etc. By no means would I call
them an rpg store anymore. Yet the sales levels are approximately the
same as a few years ago, when they mainly sold rpgs.
The plans for new games to be translated into Finnish are card games:
Doomtrooper, Magic, INWO, maybe the new Tolkien and Cthulhu games. NOT rpgs.
But I'm glad if things are better in other parts of the world.
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