I have to agree with you What If? In my experience, Carcassonnes's owners – HiG – don't seem to have much of an interest in Carcassonne Central at all. Or if they do, they're certainly not showing it. They've had an account here since February 2013 but have only posted nine times since then and last logged in back in August (which is actually surprisingly recent – I was expecting it to be at least a year ago). It might be that they're better engaged with their fans through Carcassonne Forum (our German sister site) where there isn't the same kind of language barrier, but the fact that I have to have everything I read there translated through Google means I don't spend a lot of time there and can't really comment.
I Always hated the fact that there where 2 big fora, I never made an account on the other one.
Mostly there are the same posts on both sites anyway. As this is an international forum, this would be the best place for them to get feedback or engage with their fans.
Don't get me wrong about any of this. I recognise that HiG are a business and that if they want to stay in business then they have to make money, which usually means targeting their stuff at whoever they can sell most of it to (i.e. not us since most of us already own pretty much everything). I also recognise that they know much more about running a business than I do and so don't feel especially outraged that they have made decisions which don't seem to benefit me or the majority of Carcassonne's hardcore fans (i.e. us). Am I annoyed by it? Yes, a bit. But I'd rather they made sufficient money to keep the game alive by reaching out to new players if the alternative is that they have to kill it off because it's not economically viable to keep it alive for a few hundred fans. If that happens, everyone loses...
You can aim for new players.. But eventually that group is gone. I think that their strategy is very bad. You always have to aim for the "hardcore" fans as a priority. They know your game and keep making it better. If you don't listen to this fanbase, you lose people who are interested. Look at this forum. There were very few posts and online members some time ago. Simply because the fanbase was getting smaller with the latest decisions.. So i definitely agree with your opinion.
What i don't understand is their decision to create 9 (5 so far) expansions in the new look, that are already released in the old version. Is it just me or is that an incredible waste of resources and money?
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To stay on-Topic,
I'm sad, that this will be a Carc 2.0 expansion, but on the other side, it was to be expected. (I hoped for the 10th expansion to be the last one in the old style)
I'm also curious about the little chips and what kind of effect this will have on the game.
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