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[Hasbro is Evil] It's Monopoly's turn, now

Started by Benoist, February 16, 2011, 06:05:15 PM

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Tommy Brownell

#15
February 16, 2011, 10:25:13 PM
Once US currency became worth approximately the same amount as Monopoly money, it was no longer cost effective to put it in the game, you see.
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Peregrin

#16
February 16, 2011, 10:40:29 PM
Quote from: Benoist;440788But of course! Totally! Why? Are you dumb? This is a brilliant idea! :D

Well, I am both dumb and brilliant, but that's besides the point.

My business sense tells me that:
Where X, Y = sales of a given type of product
If X > Y, then Y + X > Y
Therefore:
Combining classic board-games with half-ass digital devices will lead to more sales.  

QED

Other factors and points of consideration are just noise that don't need to be taken into account.  My business degree didn't think they were important.  Or maybe I'm just forgetting, since in all likelihood I either scraped by with the bare-minimum GPA to stay in business school. Or I graduated over 20 years ago and am horribly out of touch.  But I doubt it.  It's not like I was promoted to my own level of incompetence or anything.
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Justin Alexander

#17
February 17, 2011, 04:51:23 AM
The Monopoly game looks like it would be as much fun as pulling teeth.

But I have to confess that that new Battleship looks pretty entertaining:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGBaHcrdzRk&feature=player_embedded

Not $50 worth of entertaining. But entertaining.
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Imperator

#18
February 17, 2011, 06:47:15 AM
I didn't get where the fun of the original game was supposed to be, anyway.
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Nicephorus

#19
February 17, 2011, 07:59:33 AM
I never liked the game anyway.  But there have been a hundred versions of Monopoly, this is just one more.  I doubt that they'll totally to away with the original.

The Butcher

#20
February 17, 2011, 08:01:20 AM
:eek: :eek: :eek:

I am at a loss for words. Really.

:eek: is as articulate as I can get on the subject.

I love me some Monopoly.

Mini-rant. My friends never want to play and bust my balls about how "long" it takes. And then they break out Settlers of Motherfucking Catan (a.k.a. Sid Meier's Civilization: the Boardgame). :rolleyes:

Windjammer

#21
February 17, 2011, 08:41:47 AM
The video

plus

Quote from: From the article"There is a recognition that people's attention spans maybe aren't as big as they used to be, or they don't have the time to dedicate to this activity," said Sean McGowan, a toy analyst with Needham & Company.

equals

I don't know if this a hoax from TheOnion or Hasbro is actually this dumb.
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Peregrin

#22
February 17, 2011, 09:16:36 AM
Fuuuck I hate that stupid "They're busy Americans so they don't have time for this shit" attitude.  People. Learn. To. Make. Time. Christ.

Scheduling RPGs may be hard because it requires a certain amount of prep, but you don't need to do that shit with Monopoly.

Not to mention, people spend hours playing shit like Call of Duty online, or grinding away in Pokemon.  Their attention isn't gone, it's just been turned elsewhere.
"In a way, the Lands of Dream are far more brutal than the worlds of most mainstream games. All of the games set there have a bittersweetness that I find much harder to take than the ridiculous adolescent posturing of so-called \'grittily realistic\' games. So maybe one reason I like them as a setting is because they are far more like the real world: colourful, crazy, full of strange creatures and people, eternal and yet changing, deeply beautiful and sometimes profoundly bitter."

Melan

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February 17, 2011, 09:30:39 AM Last Edit: February 17, 2011, 09:34:09 AM by Melan
Quote from: Caesar Slaad;440768Does it come with fake investment ponzi schemes and taxpayer subsidized bank bailouts? That would really modernize it!
Quote from: ggroyWhat would amusing is a square representing "Enron".
I want that game! You could play it with paper money starting at $100 mn denominations, and if you landed on the SEC square, you would have to pay $ 100 mn and lose a turn. :D

Except, much like Monopoly, people would probably take the idea at face value and it would eventually become a massively successful household brand.
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Peregrin

#24
February 17, 2011, 10:15:57 AM
Quote from: Melan;440854Except, much like Monopoly, people would probably take the idea at face value and it would eventually become a massively successful household brand.

Dude, using a board-game to teach some sort of societal lesson?  Total Swine that Magie was.
"In a way, the Lands of Dream are far more brutal than the worlds of most mainstream games. All of the games set there have a bittersweetness that I find much harder to take than the ridiculous adolescent posturing of so-called \'grittily realistic\' games. So maybe one reason I like them as a setting is because they are far more like the real world: colourful, crazy, full of strange creatures and people, eternal and yet changing, deeply beautiful and sometimes profoundly bitter."

Werekoala

#25
February 17, 2011, 10:54:06 AM
Quote from: avidreader514;440774Wow, it's Dark Tower.


Mmm - Dark Tower. I played the fuck out of that game. Still would, if I had it.
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Benoist

#26
February 17, 2011, 11:18:15 AM Last Edit: February 17, 2011, 11:20:50 AM by Benoist
Quote from: Imperator;440838I didn't get where the fun of the original game was supposed to be, anyway.
Quote from: The Butcher;440843Mini-rant. My friends never want to play and bust my balls about how "long" it takes. And then they break out Settlers of Motherfucking Catan (a.k.a. Sid Meier's Civilization: the Boardgame). :rolleyes:

Why you hate Monopoly. (appreciate the irony of the link applied to different contexts)

ggroy

#27
February 17, 2011, 11:22:18 AM
Wonder how many people used the "Free Parking Jackpot" houserule, which stretched the game on for hours and hours.

Benoist

#28
February 17, 2011, 11:22:29 AM
Quote from: Peregrin;440858Dude, using a board-game to teach some sort of societal lesson?  Total Swine that Magie was.
AH! So that's what criteria for the Swine look like! ;)

Nicephorus

#29
February 17, 2011, 12:41:18 PM
Quote from: Peregrin;440858Dude, using a board-game to teach some sort of societal lesson?  Total Swine that Magie was.

That would be as bad as taking a game that demonstrates that landowners inevitably wind up with all the wealth to promote property tax as the only fair tax and turning it into a family favorite without paying the original designer.

Monopoly is much improved and shorter with the actual rules - it brings it up from mind numbingly terrible to mediocre.
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