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Quotes about competitive games

The challenge these days—at least in my experience—is that because people only expect to play any given game once or twice, they want to be fully competitive in their first game.

– Mccrispy (BGG user)
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I wonder if the popularity of competitive games with no direct confrontation, in which each player plays for his own sake, and sometimes on his own small board, is not a lighter and less conscious version of the same assumption—the idea that we would be less nasty, and therefore cooler and more modern, if we play less nasty games. It’s wrong for a simple and obvious reason, that the very nature of games is to be disconnected from reality, and the only measurable effect of this trend is that players have less fun playing.

– Bruno Faidutti
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