Dan Luu
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🕑 Added 2017-06-07 12:33:38 +0000 UTC My plan for this blog is to use it like I'd use tumblr, if I had a tumblr. I often have thoughts that are too long for twitter but too short for my blog, so why not put them here?One thing I've been wondering about is what happened to the strategy discussion on the board game site "boardgamegeek". There was a golden age of strategy discussion from maybe 2003 to 2006, where some of the best strategy discussion you could find on Euro games was happening on bgg. My local gaming groups would have some discussion, but at best we’d have minor variations on what was discussed on BGG. Nowadays, there’s not a lot as much strategy discussion on BGG for new Euro games despite there being more BGG users than ever, and the discussion that exists mostly doesn’t result in comprehensive guides. Many people in my local gaming groups have much better strategies for games than are written down on BGG. What happened?
My current theory is that it was just happenstance that BGG had such great strategy articles a decade ago. A few people decided to spend time writing up their thoughts, and once those people moved on to spending their time on things besides writing strategy articles on BGG, things fizzled out. It seemed like BGG was a great source for strategy commentary, but it was really just that three or four people who were great sources for commentary happened to be posting on BGG.
For reference, I mean posts like the following:
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/14335/puerto-rico-opening-theory-part-1-general-principl
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/14480/puerto-rico-opening-theory-part-2-openings
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/100740/caylus-2-player-opening-analyisearly-analysis-not
