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Originally Posted by Umbran  Oh, and by the way, I think it is safe to say that WotC has no effective competition in tabletop RPGs at this time. WotC far outsells all other RPG companies, and by economy of scale thereby also probably makes more money per book than any other RPG publisher. There's nobody out there who can make their materials obsolete for them. |
Even without any other major competitors, the strategy of planned obsolescence can in principle be used as a way to preempt and ward off any existing and potential future competitors. Intel does this very effectively in the pc cpu business.
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