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« on: January 23, 2012, 06:30:27 pm »
Without DougZ, this site / community of people would not exist. No one would be playing 6000+ games of Dominion and writing 10K+ word articles for it. Nevertheless, the underlying game is still Dominion by Donald X. It's not like it was an accident this game is so deep: trust me when I tell you that Donald is pretty good at this game. Dougz probably deserves much more credit than he gets for popularizing the game, but van Cliburn is not Tchaikovsky.
What I think drives barsooma's ire, and sympathies thereto, is the threat of Isotropic being taken down for a for-pay product. Which everyone is currently assuming will be bad, based on circumstantial evidence. The dearth of official news only contributes to this: I think it's a wise policy, but in the absence of facts you get rumors and speculation, usually negative.
But that's a debate we've been over a thousand times. Everyone has the incentives to see Isotropic2 succeed. RGG caters more to the casual gamer, but surely they have some interest in replicating the competitive atmosphere of Isotropic and allowing for a site like this to prosper in a way that a BSW-esque site could not. Or maybe not, and DominionStrategy goes down with Isotropic1. The point is, if you assume that Isotropic2 is going to be fabulous, then most of these objections fade away. And there's not enough reason yet to assume otherwise.
