Players Have Crowned a New Best Board Game – And It May Be Tough to Topple

Well, I don&#x27;t really understand the conjecture in the headline, that this game will somehow be harder to topple. Since its newly released and a niche game, only people who suspected that they would like it and would pay $200 for it have obtained and rated it.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t we expect the rating to degrade over time as more people other than the most passionate try it?<p>Although, if the game gets a reputation as a niche game, I can see how people would continue to self-select for playing the game, and it would continue to be a top-rated game, but with a significantly lower volume of ratings.

This is a similar problem to the ratings of religious books on Amazon and similar sites. Appeal to a very narrow niche, disappeal to anyone else, satisfy that niche, and your percentage ratings will be very high (even though almost all customers know, correctly, that they dislike your product).<p>This is also what allows targeted attacks against products - annoy (instead of appeal to) a limited segment of the population, they all come and rate your book a &quot;0&quot;, now your rating has dropped to near-zero despite it APPEALING (instead of disappealing) to most of the population.<p>Rating systems should try to figure out if a product is being boosted or attacked by a narrow slice of fans&#x2F;haters.

I tried to au board games with my children (11 and 13 yo) but we somehow never managed to get really into it, despite trying.<p>They all look repetitive and limited in the possibilities (story, physical space,...). It would seem that they have no chance against video games (Civilization, Skyrim,...) and still this is, as the article pour it, a golden age.<p>The only one which was fun (with my father, not children) was &quot;Concept&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Concept_(board_game)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Concept_(board_game)</a>) where the board is merely a medium but everything happens outside it.

The best board game is obviously High Frontier, so clearly this one will turn out to be a fad.

&gt; <i>The BoardGameGeek list is valuable real estate in high-end board gaming, and the No. 1 spot is, of course, the prime position — Boardwalk, if you will.</i><p>Forced Monopoly references are the board game equivalent of &quot;Bang! Zoom! Pow! Comics aren&#x27;t just for kids anymore!&quot;

looks like another munchkins derivative. ha