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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 186456" data-attributes="member: 3745">Great post.  I'll comment on that line, though.  I don't think that's the attitude we're seeing, that you should only like DMDs.  Liking EMs is perfectly fine.  The attitude is that the market as a whole likes DMDs more and will buy them far more than EMs, and as a business that needs profit to survive, that's the direction Farsight has to go in.You do have a real point that the whole poll process seemed rigged to force an EM to lose to Xenon, as if it's trying to sweep the EM issue under the rug that way.  That's somewhat regrettable.  But Farsight's got a point here too.  All the folks that say they want EMs... is that really true?  People even hold up Genie and Gorgar as examples of the EMs they like... which aren't even EMs!  The polling and sales are delivering the hard numbers, that the EM love isn't nearly as much as a vocal minority wants to make it seem.  Why didn't all these putative EM lovers step up and vote for Fireball?  Because what they want isn't really EM in particular, it's the throwback gameplay style.  Xenon can deliver that just as well while also crossing over to fans of later eras.BTW, the only reason anyone hates Genie around here is that outlandish 3 million point wizard goal.  If that were a manageable 1 million instead, it would be loved perfectly well.</blockquote>

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