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From: Fro <fro@***.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: RPGs on their way out?
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:57:18 -0600
At 13:04 30/04/96 +0100, you wrote:
>| Unless card games go out of fashion I would recon that we are
>|most probably the last serious generation of RPGers left. At least
>|untill something else catchs the imagination.
>
>I think they are starting to go out of fashion....]
>Either that, or the CCG market is beginning to implode due to overload.
>
>There are new CCGs every week, and there is no way the market can >sustain
itself for long.

This has happened before, many times...The most recent time i can remember
was when sports cards were the big thing, until about 1993-1994, when
oversaturation turned away all but the richest collecters. I remember this
well, as It stopped me from collecting, and led me to better things
(computers, internet, shadowrun)

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