It's an annoying and stupid game. It's all about being a landlord. One or two players are lucky and they are the only ones having a good time. The rest of the players are spending their time losing.
"Well ackshually, Monopoly was originally called 'The Landlord Game' and was all about how landlording was bad" — I don't care, you're still spending an evening pretending to be a landlord to your loved ones. The game is completely unenjoyable because it emulates capitalism too well.
Fuck off with competitive boardgames. Give me games that are merely facilitating having fun and being social and where only nerds keep score, like charades or pictionary .
Convinced Monopoly is sustained on people buying epic media reference reskins as a gag gift then never playing it.
"Millennial Edition" where "experiences" were bought instead of properties was a cognitohazard.
Then there was the "lol commies bad amirite" edition. :reddit-logo:
The libertarian edition is by far the worst