Re: Re: 2018 Meeple Choice Awards - Final Results

It all goes back to WEM's Law: "New games are [primarily] for new gamers."

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 11:09 AM Jonathan Franklin <
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> Larry, I did not mean the MCAs were necessarily affected by those trends -
> I was more wondering more if I am.
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> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:39 AM [email protected] [spielfrieks] <
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>> I'm not all that sure that the MCA's have changed that much over the
>> years, Jonathan.  They really don't seem to be affected that much by the
>> trends you mentioned.  We still seem to favor meatier Euros of about 2 hour
>> duration, just as we always have.
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>> I decided to check that theory out by putting each of our nominated games
>> this year into a broad category.  Here's the breakdown I came up with, more
>> or less in order of weight (keeping in mind that these categorizations are
>> more art than science):
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>> Euro Strategy - 10
>> Heavy Thematic - 1
>> Shorter Euro - 4
>> Middleweight - 6
>> Super Filler - 2
>> Filler - 3
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>> Not much in the way of roll 'n' writes, nor of thematic games or those
>> teeming with miniatures.  So some changes, but much the same focus that the
>> MCA's have always had (which is quite similar to what the Geek ratings
>> focused on 10 or so years ago).
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>> Larry
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