Is Classic Fantasy still relevant?

[beast_regards]

Classical Fantasy is not dead, outside web novels.

 

[skribe]

Classical Fantasy is not dead, outside web novels.

Why do you feel they struggle as web novels?

 

[beast_regards]

Why do you feel they struggle as web novels?

Expectations.
Niche communities.
All web novel sites usually host a very specific, niche community within the genre, and even individual sites have a very different site culture attached to said community, so there are very specific expectations that make a good web novel. Many readers on sites like this like fantasy or sci-fi per se, but they have quirks. and they don't go on the Internet to read classical fantasy. They get it from the conventional publishers instead, since they don't do "experimental" - breaching to different markets is difficult. Even publishers have preferred genres. A company that publishes fantasy won't print soap opera sappy romances, and vice versa

 

[RaidenReader]

I'm assuming you mean the classic fantasies that don't have the isekai thingimabob?

If so, then to me, it'll have to depend on the opinion of a whole lot of others before I even try it. Time is limited, and if I'm going to try a genre that I'm not particularly into, then I'll need a certain level of guarantee first.

But overall, I am kinda interested in it. So I guess it's still relevant to me...?

 

[TheEldritchGod]

No.
For now.