The Business: Tabletop Conventional Play Gets It Coming & Going

It's June. That means it's time for Western Videogames to do the Big Press Tour in North America.

It's also the time when Big Releases are made and smaller teams do their best to hype their stuff.

What does this have to do with Tabletop? If you're a Conventional Play Cargo Cultist, EVERYTHING! Because this is the more obvious threat that you Tabletop people have to contend with while the Bros come at you from the underground.

Everything a Casual, a Tourist, a Pop Cultist, or a Death Cultist wants out of Tabletop for Conventional Play is done easier, faster, with superior conveience and at a cheaper cost than you Tabletop people can offer. Everything. EVERYTHING!

And there's a lot more out there.

I don't have to rely on other people to show the fuck up (no Schedule Your Fun). Many of these games are far cheaper than your products, and getting cheaper over time. Some, like Dark & Darker are even free to play.

You can't offer Muh Storygaming that Vidya can. You can't offer Muh Immersion like Vidya can. You can't offer the speed of commerce or play that Vidya can. You are inferior in every respect.

The Bros still have a future on Tabletop because they are playing the real game. You don't; you have to cease commercial activity or become Vidya to survive or you're going to get wrecked.

And if you think you can just get by on shitting PDFs, think again. RPG Maker is cheaper than a lot of your games (certainly than Current Edition), and allows users to make their own videogames that they can turn around and sell on Steam and GOG. Spend $5 on a PDF that I then have to convince others to give the time of day, or spend $5 on a complete product that I can get up and running in minutes? The paste-eating retards that shit their pants and become the subject of lengthy forum threads know the better deal, and it ain't you PDF merchants.

The only future you have in Tabletop is to admit you're wrong, say "#ThankYouJeffro", become a Bro and learn the real game that you have avoided for up to 50 years.