Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
> "Note: This is a very painful concept for a lot of people to embrace, including
> a lot of our own staff, and including myself for many years. The idea that D&D
> is somehow 'better' than the competition is a powerful and entrenched concept.
> The idea that D&D can be 'beaten' by a game that is 'better' than D&D is at the
> heart of every business plan from every company that goes into marketplace
> battle with the D&D game. If you accept the Theory of Network Externalities,
> you have to admit that the battle is lost before it begins, because the value
> doesn't reside in the game itself, but in the network of people who know how to
> play it."
Which doesn't seem to synch up too well with his claim that Microsoft could be replaced
as King of the Operating System Hill by somebody who came along with a sufficiently
superior product. But this is generally true (and the people who have been most
successful in the RPG field are those who design games which do something totally
different than D&D).
Justin Bacon
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