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  • I see, I missed that tidbit of the conversation. My bad.

    I don’t see myself caring if Hasbro tries to require a “subscription”. Like I said, none of the gaming I’ve done with DND has been through any legitimate channels they offer, I’ve got the PHB and DM guide on my phone and all the games I’ve played are either homebrew or stolen PDFs that work exactly the same way a “subscription” would.

    I have been interested in checking out Pathfinder, but honestly don’t care enough to push my friend group towards it. If anyone approaches me with a PF game I’ll join, but not going out of my way to find one.


  • so I would hope that they would want to switch just to get away from Hasbro.

    I’ll say this as a relatively newer player, I don’t care about the company that made the game when I’m trying to find something to play. As a player in 2 campaigns and a baby-DM for another, I think the only money I’ve paid that hasbro would get anything from is a Nolzurs mini I bought before I started making my own.

    I’m not saying that people shouldn’t look outside of DND for other RPGs, there’s a ton of other great platforms out there, just trying to offer some perspective. I don’t think the average DnD player really gives a crap about Hasbro (again, not saying they shouldn’t care, just that they don’t), let alone have a desire to change platforms based on the manufacturer.




  • I’ll play devil’s advocate here and say that collectors have just as much of a right to these games as anyone else does.

    You say they only want them to look pretty, for the box art etc. but this ignores the same sentimental value that you yourself are looking for when you want to play the original games on the original hardware. You can emulate everything right down to the bugs and glitches of the original systems, but it doesn’t have the same feel to it as playing on the actual systems themselves, so you want some original hardware to achieve that. Nothing wrong here.

    Similarly, someone that wants to appreciate the look and feel of the original games can easily print out a photo or poster of the covers, make replicas of the consoles etc that look exactly the same as the originals - but they aren’t the originals, it doesn’t feel the same looking at a picture of cover as it does looking at the real thing, so they want some original hardware to achieve it. Don’t see anything wrong here either.

    Not trying to say I can’t appreciate your frustration. I’m down to a single Guitar Hero guitar for my 360, and if it breaks or starts to die, it’s gonna be at least $100 to get a new one, and for something I pick up once or twice a month when the urge kicks in, it’d be hard to justify it. But I can’t be mad at the fact that there’s probably someone who has 3 of them permanently afixed to their wall as an art piece, because they’re getting as much “use” out of it as I am, maybe more since they can look at and appreciate it every day vs my routine of using it for 3 days then burying it in the entertainment center.