>>96487396
>Except we don't really require businesses to stay afloat in order to continue our hobbies.
Most people don't even realize how trapped they are by obsolete thinking. A game can be a single PDF or made available for Print-on-Demand or even produced through a small company and then shipped in the mail. It doesn't need to be on every book store shelf and at every convention. All that genuinely matters is if there is a group of people who are willing to get together and play it. Popularity, fame, and even financial success do not matter when it actually comes to the activity itself, which is playing the games.

Unless you're working in the marketing department for a game company, you don't have any obligation to care if a game is popular. If it's good and fun to play, the only thing you have to care about is getting other people to play with you.

>For mine: a huge proportion of RPG players would be better off playing board games.
I'd go a step further and say that there's a lot of people who feign an interest in roleplaying and even board games without really knowing what they want or expect from the hobby, and if they examined their actual desires and expectations, they might realize that they just want to play vidya with friends or that they only really want to get together with their friends and watch a movie while eating pizza.

Someone who doesn't care about the game, doesn't engage with the story, doesn't want to roleplay, doesn't want to interact with other players, but thinks because they are some vague "nerd" type of person, that playing RPGs is something they should do, when really, they should fuck off and stop wasting everyone's time. Then, instead, just tell their friends that they want to hang out and listen to some music or watch stupid youtube videos, like friends do.