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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: January 20, 2015, 12:06:08 am »Why not a special expansion that plays with the pirate ship boards, ruins, and other components? I understand the concern about always wanting to be able to play an expansion with base, but it's also not like you could play just Seaside and Dark Ages. Perfect for players that have all the expansions, encourages getting more of them, and people could just leave cards out that require a resource they don't have if they don't have a particular expansion.Any product happens instead of other products. That's a key thing for any considerations like these. Some people really want Alchemy 2. Why not do that? Because there are more people that would prefer anything else, anything but that.
The potential audience for a product that requires Dominion is larger than the potential audience for a product that requires Dominion and Seaside. Why limit ourselves to the smaller audience? So we can use the pirate ship mat without including it? I'm not seeing it.
The same logic could be applied to the expansions themselves: why make expansions that require base Dominion and not just spin-offs/other games? Because there is a market for them.
I understand the economic concerns of manufacturing and selling games and that a 2-deep prerequisite has less audience than a 1-deep prerequisite.
I think most game expansions are fairly unlikely to bring a significant percentage of new players to the game unless you are talking about licensed product, which does not appear to be a direction Dominion is going in.