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Posting on my way out the door on the way to a con, so only time for one question. Anyone got game nights/days planned for this weekend?
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Charles Williams
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Jacob Williams
How do we unfuck boardgames, mates?
Caleb Stewart
You can't, once they get their cherries popped, something inside them breaks as well.
Lucas Long
Erase Kickstarter.
Ryan Lee
or just stop backing games on kickstarter that are overproduced
Austin Parker
This is the main thing, I'm not sure if there's anything anyone can do about it though. Overproduced games deserve to exist (barely), but they don't deserve to absorb the fucking hobby. I can't think of what we could do to prevent them from taking everything over without just banning them altogether, and that's not actually a thing anyone can do, anyway.
In the end it comes down to the people.
These fucking people want to buy this slag. And we can't change that.
So I guess the only solution is to socially ostracize them?
John Fisher
we can if you want every thread derailed. unfortunately you're right. theres no end to it so we should probably start ignoring it but Veeky Forums is not the place to convince people to let things they don't like just slide through
Michael Phillips
To provide a counter-point...
Much of the appeal of playing a board game as opposed to vidya is the tactile component. There's nothing like the feel of rolling dice, moving chits around, and analyzing a gorgeous board state.
Of course eventually more savvy board gamers realize quality mechanisms are almost as, if not more important, than over-produced components. But until they develop this view point they'll still buy the latest plastic pusher.
My advice? Play whatever you want that makes you and your friends have a good time.
Alexander White
First you should define what 'fucked' means. For me there are more good boardgames than I could play in my life already and, unlike video games (or Veeky Forums stuff), they only get better and better with each edition or generation. They don't suffer from getting dumbed down (or one could say casualization) either, some specific ones do as they get more popular, but that is clearly not the general case. So where are they fucked exactly? Sure stuff gets overhyped, certain fotm 'memes' like 'legacy' or 'coop' have their annoying peaks, but what does it matter? There will always be good games to play and buy.
Parker Phillips
this is actually not a bad point. the only issue it could create are people who remain casual forever because they think anything heavier than blood rage is fiddly by default