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I find it entirely cowardly to fob off this situation as “commonplace”, as though the fact that this apparently happens frequently...

Its just business. There no such thing as a non-predatory business; that's an oxymoron. You're applying drama to the routine. A...

Again, this is excusing predatory behavior. There are non-predatory businesses, of course, and companies can act ethically--here...

No, but you are waving off predatory business behaviors as quotidian and excusing businesses passing off damage on to their partners as...

No, I see predatory business behavior resulting in companies that try to operate professionally getting screwed. Again, there was plenty...

And there was plenty Diamond could have done before the wheel locked to protect their "partners" from the smash-and-grab being run on...

Diamond is hardly opposing Chase in all this. They are the face of the smash-and-grab.

When hobby games distributors Wizards Attic and then Osseum went under in short succession in the early 2000s, burning their clients and...

I have no experience in the business of RPGs outside of being a freelance writer on occasion, but it strikes me as unlikely that...

Aside from the glut of material out there, the RPG hobby is badly designed from a business perspective. The basic consumer unit is the...

We have fifty years of outdoors, wide-open experiments to show that very few game companies ever grow very large. There are a wide...

It is. I have a somewhat related conversation going on in discord because we noticed that several folks are using the same image of...

I get what you're saying and (I think) why. However, the garage-band nature of ttrpgs plus the digital age we live in has created a...

You assume that the size of the audience would stay the same if these other games left the market. IMHO, that's fallacious. That aside...

That is part of why I think that from a business POV there are too many RPGs. If there were fewer of them, each would likely have a...