The problem is that some of those collectors don't realize that there are any other ways of approaching a hobby. A while back on BGG, someone new dropped a que

The problem is that some of those collectors don't realize that there are any other ways of approaching a hobby. A while back on BGG, someone new dropped a question in a forum about designing a game based on a web comic. He was told immediately that he'd never make money, that he'd never be successful without more experience than he'd be willing to get, and to top it off, got a long lecture from one grognard about how the game---based on a comic---would be a total failure unless he dropped the concept and rebased it on said grognard's own ideas. The newbie concluded, rightly, that it wasn't a welcoming community.