Millennials can't even with the new Monopoly, where players collect experiences
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https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/millennials-can-t-even-new-monopoly-where-players-collect-experiences-n937246
I like to add more to the thread title, but due to the character limit, I can’t.
A better execution of the idea of Monopoly for millennials would be to just take a regular Monopoly game, replace all the money with the money from Monopoly Junior (it's worth 1% of normal Monopoly money, don't adjust any prices, but do adjust all incomes) and remove the community chest deck.
Wait, the whole "forget real estate, you can't afford it anyway" thing wasn't a joke someone made but the actual tagline for the game? That seems uh... Rather poorly thought out. Why did they think something like that would go over? Same with the fact the Monopoly guy is wearing a freaking participation medal. Did Hasbro contract Hillary Clinton for this shit or something? It seems about as out of touch and fall-flat-on-your-face-esque as her "Pokemon Go--to the polls!" garbage.
I like the copyright-nonspecific crying emoji piece. Aren't emojis in the public domain?
Uncle Pennybags is wearing a participation award on his lapel.
I kinda hope the boot is still in this version, just with a slight molding modification so it has really long straps you lift it by to move around.
I thought this was just a high quality meme but I guess Hasbro seriously thought this would work out for them somehow.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/40df2b07-7420-439c-a412-2986f50840c6/image.png
Such a hasty cash-grab they don't even update the description to be accurate, and just indirectly admit that "experiences" is real estate behind an in-your-face joke about how millenials are poor as fuck.
Millenials like self-aware, ironic humour. Millenials don't appreciate having nearly every aspect of their existence mocked for the sake of self-aware humour that costs $19.82, which coincidentally is also higher than the hourly wage many millenials can look forward to earning for, well, the predictable future.
jfc Hasbro you've collectively stuck your foot in your mouth so far you're gagging on your own kneecap
Sorry. I can''t purchase your board game. All my money went to avocado toast and iphones.
But it did work out:
While it’s received plenty of attention and scorn from some millennials, Hasbro clearly has a hit. The $19.82 game, which is available exclusively at Walmart, is so popular it’s already listed as out of stock on the retailer’s website, with used versions selling for triple the price.
Not particularly surprised, a lot of millenials love self-deprecating humor. I was more voicing my disbelief that this is an actual product they decided to sell instead of just a convincing reddit hoax.
How is this a gauge on popularity? They could have just made like 10,000 copies for shits and giggles.
They should also change the Chance cards to all be negative and subtract your income, with a few examples being 'recession', 'climate change' and 'tofu costs increased.'
And remember who handed out the trophies, it sure as shit wasn’t millenials.
the only people i can imagine buying this are edgy braindead millenials, and parents who fucking hate their kids
Fixed the headline.
"Millennials 'can't break even' with the new economy, where players collect debt not cash"
Are the aware of the irony of Uncle Pennybags being a caricature of the leaders of our hypercorporate society that has made it so that we cannot, indeed, "even afford rent?"
Do they think that Millennials are actually so self-absorbed that they don't understand the underpinnings of how the world works?
Did anybody think about this for more than five seconds?
I bet a millennial intern suggested this a joke and the men upstairs ran with it.
Man I can't imagine a rebranding of a popular classic "For Millennials" would be regarded as anything other then stupid and condescending.
I mean generally, Millennials do seem to be okay with some jeering about the modern society they live in, but not when it's this ham fisted.
Haha! It's funny because I'm in a lot of debt!
Keep in mind they have a Monopoly game for the liberal right too. I wonder how communist or fascist Monopoly would play out...
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/203697/cb20d173-cec7-44f3-9c5d-afb40bf8e5d6/image.png
In Monopoly for Millennials, Uncle Pennybags is your boomer uncle who browses MAGA Facebook groups and has become obsessed with QAnon and Pizzagate. He doesn’t get invited to Thanksgiving anymore.
hi
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109809/fb7e5230-c2a1-4ae3-b541-b514a772bd05/image.png
the only good version
That'd just be called terrorism
It should have came with a trigger warning.
Common, get on it hasbro.
I'm consistently surprised that people still buy and play monopoly when it's specifically designed to be a terrible game, especially that nowadays there is a whole industry of actually well-made and well-designed boardgames available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sFmt_kIUbg
Uncle Pennybags was born into wealth the participation award doesn't even apply to him.
Dunking on Millennials gets weirder and weirder as more time passes
The material hasn't changed from "haha! look at these fucking spoiled leftist teenagers!! look how thin skinned and poor they all are!!"
But millennials are now a bunch of hardworking 30 year olds trying to get by in the fucking financial hellscape left by the previous generation, as that same generation consistently votes for parties that work to make life even harder for them.
My three friends and myself play and enjoy boardgames like this (pic is from the Mansions of Madness boardgame):
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n_ZkfyJkdAA/maxresdefault.jpg
To see something like this being marketed to my generation kinda feels like they aren't even making an effort to figure out what we enjoy lmao. Bear in mind that I can only speak for myself and my three friends in this circumstance, but I'm sure there's some people that have the same thoughts on the matter.
I imagine the conversation at Hasbro HQ went something like this:
Bob Good: "Hey John, let's try to figure out how to engage this demographic."
John Doe: "Ok, what'd you have in mind?"
Bob Good: "Let's make a boardgame about all their problems, people love to be reminded about them and this particular generation has a lot of them."
John Doe: "Ok, sounds good to me."
I wouldn't be surprised if they considered the possibility of backlash too. I'd expect them to see that as a good thing so that their boardgame gets more publicity.
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