Re: Re: Game history aproximation...

I think a lot of it has to do with the "instant" gratification and 
commitment factors.

You can go on your Game Boy, your PS2, or your computer and play games 
to a conclusion in a few minutes, hours, or at most, days. You do not 
need to figure how to communicate effectively with anyone, just learn 
the rules and go to it.

A good standard game of PBEM Diplomacy requires a minimum commitment of 
6 months or more, and there is all that bothersome writing!

As for the easily offended, I believe that in most cases, that's just 
somebody looking for an easy excuse to take his bat and go home.

What's a "smeagol"?

mczet wrote:

>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.
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>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.
>
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>----- 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:
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>>>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.
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>>>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
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>>if
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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
>>(snip)
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