demise of board games?

[ravinhood]

That's fine Flying Elvis go on over to the DARK SIDE! lol The REBELS will win eventually.

[Zap]

Very hard to convert a "don't get" to a "get", it's not like showing someone a new sport, a new car or anything else that's relatively intuitive.

One reason to add to this is parents (particularlly mothers) see it as violence, think their child will grow up to be a criminal. So when the kid ask for the game they get the "no" answer.
It a bigger reason than we might think. That is why the war game companies started to call it a "hobby" in their public relation campaigns and steered away the use of the terms "wargaming", right?

[Zap]

The thread title "Demise of the Board games" Iwas not going to buy it but the price seems steep. If the other negatives reasons given above for the possible demise of boardgames don't kill it, will the price tag?

Crap on, the high price of paper products!!!!!!

[ravinhood]

Crap on, the high price of paper products!!!!!!

Heh, a new form of toilet paper.