| From: | Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com |
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| Subject: | Wait and see. (Was SR Narrowing of focus) |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:12:09 EDT |
bluewizard@*****.com writes:
> Re-read your above comments, and then ask yourself WHY there are more SR
> players today than back then.
> Is it because there are that many more gamers?
> Or is it because the direction FASA has taken SR has struck a nerve with
the
> target audience, and the game has grown because of it?
The recent growth in the past year, yet again, is not so much do to SR3
coming up with brilliant new concepts. VR2 and R2 were out longer before
SR3. It's that finally Shadowrun exists in one core rulebook. Even if Dowd
were still DLOH, this probably would have been done by now, with the same
results.
And the argument was which would sell better, Neo-A books or Target. You
claimed Target because of the sales figures, when that's really like
comparing box office totals between Titanic and Gone With The Wind. GwtW,
adjusted for inflation, still beats Titantic. If a Neo-A book was put out
right now, with this larger audience, it would sell at least as well as the
Target books, and maybe better. The Shadowrun line also grew in sales just
between 1990 (NAGNA) and 1994 (Bug City). The years when Dowd was still in
charge, the years when we didn't have the new cool decking or rigging rules.
-Twist
