The Business: Colville Made An Analog Fire Emblem

Clickbait Pat talks about Matt Colville's take on D&D4e.

For $135 dollars, you get hardcovers. For $70, it's softcovers.

For less than that you can get a videogame that hits all the same itches and you will actually play it.

Colville, you fucking retard: you made an analog videogame!

Every last one of these games are CHEAPER and EASIER to acquire!

Furthermore, unlike Colville's masturbatory monograph, these get played!

I don't have to herd some Soup Aisle sadsacks like cats to play. I don't need to waste time reading rules that, knowing Colville's predilictions, won't be obeyed because no one will be bothered to Read The Fucking Manual (but man will there be bitching on Reddit about it). I don't need to Schedule My Fun with people who don't esteem this as something that you make time for.

I can instead just boot the machine, click the icon, and play. I can play how I want, for as long as I want, at any time. If I want others to see, I livestream my gameplay to some source or another (a Discord call/channel, a streaming site like YouTube or Twitch, or even on Twitter) and keep the chat box where I can see it so I can read what's said.

"But there's money-"

Only from fleecing the rubes that are his audience, and they're proving to not be such rubes by freaking out at him over this. Good.

You're not Warhammer. You don't get to make money pushing product justified by a ruleset. (Just ask Catalyst.) Doing so at all is dodgy at best, and doing so for a clone of the most hated edition of The Only Game That Matters is pants-on-head retarded. His business people should have beaten him until he came to his senses.

Pushing this out while the Great Retrenchment is ongoing, when the hobby's business side is in a collapse, when people do not have discretionary income to waste like this, is pants-on-head retarded and I look forward to hearing about how badly Colville eats shit over the failure. Begging on Kickstarter only gets you so far, and Colville's hitting those limits.

Fuck you and your retarded shitbag product, Colville. I can get a better version cheaper that I'll actually play today.

Stop thinking Le Indie Darlings are worth your time or money. Just Play D&D!