Re: Re: Game history aproximation...

Agreed, and I might also add that our groups are victims of their own
success. Having been kicked out of Genie which was one of the first to fold,
we were also amoung the first to spread the Dip gospel on the WWW. There are
people playing all over the place.

Also, many of us are just not quite as nutso about the game as we used to
be. We have little patience for the smeagols and easily offended.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "greg15669" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 7:19 AM
Subject: [CAT23-Gchat] Re: Game history aproximation...


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> --- In [email protected], "David E Watson" <dipknight@c...>
> wrote:
> > The Net itself had a big boom and outpour of interest in the 90's
> > that swelled our ranks.
> > My guesstimation is Gamestarts snowballed from about 300 to 800 and
> > then slowly leveled off.
> >
> > We're on the downside of that hill now where most of those that
> > started in Cat23 have now either left or spread their interest into
> > other Dip groups or (dare I say it) other interests entirely. (As
> if
> > there is ANY life after Dip).
> >
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> My general feeling is that there are less and less people who are
> interested in table board games. One interested in strategy games can
> easily spend time on the various (and very good) PC games that have
> appeared over the past 5 years or so.
>
> Additionally, Hasbro is not particularly interested in Dip or the
> other ex-AH games, as the bulk of its cash flow comes from toys and
> diplomacy is but a tiny fraction of their agenda. So, they hardly
> market the Game.
>
> Two good reasons that we see fewer and fewer new players. And not
> just on cat23 - it's no coincidence that the Pouch gets hardly 1 or 2
> issues out per year...
>
> Gregory
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