monopoly

>>54428142
Doggos are OP.
Thimbles need a buff.

>>54428187
thimbles and irons were removed in the last patch
but the dog is still op

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me > you

>>54428142
It's a good way of ending a friendship without having to man up and do it yourself.

>>54428142
It honestly is one of the greatest games of all time.

It was meant to be a game about how monopolies and rampant capitalism is bad. Who wins the game is decided early by completely arbitrary rolls and who caves to peer pressure first and allows others to have monopolies. As is the game is great fun for one player, then the others get to just hang on and lose slowly, dragging out the inevitable, cutting deals and losing friendships.


As for why it's popular? I think it's mostly because it didn't really have any completion of decades, and no one put serious thought or effort into making board games because they were regarded as children's games. That and there's an addictive, sadistic high achieved from winning.

>>54428305
But that's Diplomacy.

>>54428142
It's got a... oh, what do you call it?
One of those things where you're the only big name. I forget the word.

Whatever, it's got that on the family board game market, and there's a lot more families than board game enthusiasts.

>>54428142
Sage for random facts about monopoly:

Most of the pieces are meant to represent either the working class (thimble, iron, shoe, etc.) or the aristocracy (car, tophat, dog, etc.) I'm not quite sure as to the relevance of the cannon or the cavalry soldier.

The woman who originally created Monopoly created a sister game about socialism (I believe it was about socialism. The antithesis of Monopoly regardless. Can't remember the name.)

The woman had the idea stolen by another man. She was eventually paid a paltry sum, but nowhere near what she deserved considering how much he made off the game.

Monopoly's popularity when I was a kid was really baffling to me. From my perspective at the time it didn't seem like there were really a lot of other board games out there, but I doubt that was actually true. Maybe board games were kind of just unpopular as a whole, so the only things stores would stock were those pointless "special edition" monopoly sets for things like national parks or whatever

>>54428142
Its a meme

>>54428315
I came here to say this.

>>54428315
If you're not going into Diplomacy with an idea of how to stab everyone in the back and the way things are going to go, you're pretty much having badwrongfun.

>>54428400
>The woman who originally created Monopoly created a sister game about socialism
Fuck, I want that. Off to find it

>>54428187
>doggos are OP
Love it when people pick doggo for the charisma + loyalty buffs thinking it will help them out against their single biggest hard counter, which I pick every game: the car.

>>54428400
>>54430629
Do you mean Anti-Monopoly? It was created as a response to Monopoly and players were workers bringing down monopolies, but it wasn't created by the same person.

>>54428142
Same reason that Transformers movies can make over a billion bucks.

>>54428400
You're misremembering a bit here. The prototypical Monopoly was The Landlord's Game, and it was intended as a teaching aid to show how capitalism causes wealth to accumulate among the wealthy (as demonstrated by the sad, miserable slog of the endgame where one person has clearly won already and everyone else is just fighting to lose last).

The fact that the stolen game became so popular (and lucrative) is an example of incredible irony.

>>54430629
http://landlordsgame.info/games/lgp-1932/lgp-1932_rules.html

>>54430718
She did create two games of opposite themes. This is my dirty phone posted source:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ca_NYNndZGk


>>54431500
Not really sure how I'm misrepresenting what you stated...

>>54432260
see >>54431593

Prosperity uses the same board and one edition of the game came with both sets of rules. Apparently you could even switch rulesets in the middle of the game.

>>54428142
While others are pointing out facts about the game, e.g., demonstrates how nasty rampant or unregulated capitalism is, especially in the end game, I don't think casual consumers know that.

I think that most people who purchase and play the game do so because it is a recognizable meme, and because nobody ever actually reads the fucking rules.

It is such a stupidly popular game, and so many people know the basic gist of how it works, but I don't think that many of those same folks turn around and ponder how unfun it gets for everyone not in the lead.

Anti-monopoly is excellent. First time I understood the difference between free market and unregulated economy.

my favorite variant was "cheater monopoly" wherein before hand everyone agrees that cheating in alright as long as nobody catches you, and if you are caught you move to jail.

>>54437738
Going to jail is a blessing late game so that's a shitty rule

>>54437906
Imagine the metagame of seeing what you can get away with lategame because people don't want to send you to jail.