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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 5754588" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p>WotC isn't a mega-corporation. Hasbro is.</p><p></p><p>The current corporate structure is poisonous to capitalism. The current corporate structure is more alike to feudalism. You have mega-corporations purchasing assets they have no passion or interest in other than to milk the maximum amount of profit from the product and eliminate it as a competitor through acquisition rather than competition.</p><p></p><p>These corporations have been destroying product lines for many years now. Everything from <em>Snapple</em> and <em>Breyer's Ice Cream</em> to games like <em>D&D</em> to the movie and publishing industry.</p><p></p><p>I prefer to spend my hobby dollars at a smaller company run by people that enjoy the game as well as want to make a profit off it like Paizo. Hasbro could care less about D&D or the RPG industry unless they are meeting their profit margins and making as much money as possible regardless of quality or creativity.</p><p></p><p>When a company lacks passionate leadership when it comes to their product, I don't want to support that company unless it's something like toilet paper that I need and does't really require a great deal of creativity. When it comes to my RPG games, I want a company that cares.</p><p></p><p>Even take a company like Blizzard. They really care about their games. They won't put a game out until they really feel it is ready to go the majority of the time. That's why when they do put out a game, it is usually high quality. Those are the types of companies I like to support. </p><p></p><p>Not the creativity destroying black hole mega-corporations buying up everything, sanitizing it, and shoving it down our throats with their voracious acquisition-to-destroy competition strategies that are destroying the benefits of capitalism. Makes me sick to see it.</p><p></p><p>I hope WotC/D&D is freed from the tyranny of Hasbro one day. They don't love D&D. It's just a product line to them. Free WotC! I say. Free them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 5754588, member: 5834"] WotC isn't a mega-corporation. Hasbro is. The current corporate structure is poisonous to capitalism. The current corporate structure is more alike to feudalism. You have mega-corporations purchasing assets they have no passion or interest in other than to milk the maximum amount of profit from the product and eliminate it as a competitor through acquisition rather than competition. These corporations have been destroying product lines for many years now. Everything from [i]Snapple[/i] and [i]Breyer's Ice Cream[/i] to games like [i]D&D[/i] to the movie and publishing industry. I prefer to spend my hobby dollars at a smaller company run by people that enjoy the game as well as want to make a profit off it like Paizo. Hasbro could care less about D&D or the RPG industry unless they are meeting their profit margins and making as much money as possible regardless of quality or creativity. When a company lacks passionate leadership when it comes to their product, I don't want to support that company unless it's something like toilet paper that I need and does't really require a great deal of creativity. When it comes to my RPG games, I want a company that cares. Even take a company like Blizzard. They really care about their games. They won't put a game out until they really feel it is ready to go the majority of the time. That's why when they do put out a game, it is usually high quality. Those are the types of companies I like to support. Not the creativity destroying black hole mega-corporations buying up everything, sanitizing it, and shoving it down our throats with their voracious acquisition-to-destroy competition strategies that are destroying the benefits of capitalism. Makes me sick to see it. I hope WotC/D&D is freed from the tyranny of Hasbro one day. They don't love D&D. It's just a product line to them. Free WotC! I say. Free them. [/QUOTE]
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