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<blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 4848365" data-attributes="member: 59096"><p>With the possible exceptions of WoW and GW Warhammer(and possibly the Dune video game which I am not familiar with), all of the things you mentioned created something new. D&D, M:tG, Quake and Diablo created markets that previously didn't really exist. WoW and GW Warhammer took an existing market, and then did it so much better that they destroyed the competition. </p><p></p><p>RPGs are in their 4th decade now, and those have been four decades packed with innovation. There really isn't much room for this sort of revolutionary innovation at this point, and frankly WotC's DDI initiative is probably as close as we're going to get. As for going the WoW/GW Warhammer route it requires both creative and business resources which non-WotC entities in the RPG world just don't possess. A slick designer may appear here and there and create something neat, but they can't compete with WotC's deep list of top notch designers, can't compete with WotC's deep pockets, can't match WotC's production values, and don't have the resources to go into new territory like the DDI.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thecasualoblivion, post: 4848365, member: 59096"] With the possible exceptions of WoW and GW Warhammer(and possibly the Dune video game which I am not familiar with), all of the things you mentioned created something new. D&D, M:tG, Quake and Diablo created markets that previously didn't really exist. WoW and GW Warhammer took an existing market, and then did it so much better that they destroyed the competition. RPGs are in their 4th decade now, and those have been four decades packed with innovation. There really isn't much room for this sort of revolutionary innovation at this point, and frankly WotC's DDI initiative is probably as close as we're going to get. As for going the WoW/GW Warhammer route it requires both creative and business resources which non-WotC entities in the RPG world just don't possess. A slick designer may appear here and there and create something neat, but they can't compete with WotC's deep list of top notch designers, can't compete with WotC's deep pockets, can't match WotC's production values, and don't have the resources to go into new territory like the DDI. [/QUOTE]
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