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Board game sales are booming as people seek off-screen connections
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Dunno what your problem is or why you're insisting on conflict, but I said it's ok. The boardgame community owes Catan a lot for getting it more into the mainstream, but it's 30 years old and I've played it enough to have an opinion on it. In your metaphor, you're the guy that insists everybody should love 90s pop and anybody that doesn't is pretentious and hates you. That's not why people don't like you.
Anyway, I'm done interacting with you. Enjoy life and some newer board games.
I'll continue to play the games I enjoy playing, including Catan, despite your opinion on them. I don't care how long you've been playing Catan nor how old it is, people still play Chess and Go ffs. Checkers is like 5,000 years old, I'm sure it's beneath you but that's a bit older than 30yr, and people still love it.
I said it before and I say it again, it's ok to let people enjoy things, you don't have to tell them why they're wrong for enjoying it.