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<blockquote data-quote="wlmartin" data-source="post: 5651420" data-attributes="member: 6679380"><p>All of this diversifying isnt new... we knew it was coming earlier in the year when all of a sudden the book releases began drying up and all of these board games came popping up.</p><p></p><p></p><p>No doubt it is due to the influence of Hasbro (aka Monopoly people) but it is obviously being driven from the fact that WotC are unhappy with the type of business D&D is and want to keep the revenue stream running thick and fast.</p><p></p><p>D&D unlike a lot of games such as Yugioh/MTG (which rely on Card boosters), Warhammer (which relies on Minis) or online games (which rely on subscription fees) they have a limited revenue stream outside of the book releases.</p><p></p><p>WotC are not happy at being a Book Publisher... but this is much like Nandos being unhappy at just being a Chicken Restaurant and deciding to supplement its income selling Chicken Man toys.</p><p></p><p>WotC will do what it will do and providing that these board games (which interest me very little) don't interfere with their D&D work it only goes to strengthen their pocketbook and encourage them to spend more money on developing D&D core work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wlmartin, post: 5651420, member: 6679380"] All of this diversifying isnt new... we knew it was coming earlier in the year when all of a sudden the book releases began drying up and all of these board games came popping up. No doubt it is due to the influence of Hasbro (aka Monopoly people) but it is obviously being driven from the fact that WotC are unhappy with the type of business D&D is and want to keep the revenue stream running thick and fast. D&D unlike a lot of games such as Yugioh/MTG (which rely on Card boosters), Warhammer (which relies on Minis) or online games (which rely on subscription fees) they have a limited revenue stream outside of the book releases. WotC are not happy at being a Book Publisher... but this is much like Nandos being unhappy at just being a Chicken Restaurant and deciding to supplement its income selling Chicken Man toys. WotC will do what it will do and providing that these board games (which interest me very little) don't interfere with their D&D work it only goes to strengthen their pocketbook and encourage them to spend more money on developing D&D core work. [/QUOTE]
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