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it's easy to assume that bad outcomes are always made by dumb people in spite of the fact that almost every company on earth is run by smarter than average people.

I never bought anything for any artist or writer in any version. I just bought the stuff I liked.

But the original post was about the endless piles of content (most of it not Hasbro created). Just dealing with the IP holder's would kill that really quickly. I dont' see a profit there.

no the idea that they'd chase white whales (GM's) instead of everyone.

I'm sure they make ad revenue. But that doesn't resolve the masses of IP material out there that aren't old, not new D&D material. Not likely most companies that make game supplements are going to allow that to happen.

Honestly I think they need a 10 to 15 dollar a month sub that gives people access to everything and quit selling books. I don't see any other solid predictable revenue options for them.

I think 5e has probably hit market saturation.

It just depends on if they can tweak it right to make people want to keep the subs long enough so that it's more profitable than the books. I think a good start there is to let players keep the old stuff they purchase even when they do refreshes or edition changes.

isnt' that the opposite of a financial reason to do it? a Wiki for old stuff doesn't seem very profitable.

I'd say 40 to 50% of products I've seen over the years were in GM libraries. some players buy a lot too but I think at least 1/2 of players buy nothing or just a book or two.

that possibility died the day Hasbro bought them.

done that 3 times already. <sort've>

So after reading all this it's 1. tiny little updates dribbled out every two or three years. 2. lot's of updates or what I call the 3rd edition model. 3. reinvent the wheel every 5 to 10 years. We still haven't come up with anything that hasn't already been tried.

that's funny. Basic Marketing is make people wade through tons of stuff so you'll buy the things that are higher profit. All financial benefits are for white whales wading through mounds of stuff they'll buy. This will never get fixed for that reason. It's the same reason your grocery...

It's also much harder to find it because it's like the internet an huge disorganized mess. More is not always better.

and feeds the certain things are overpowered arguements, when they really aren't overpowered just powerful and very unlikely to work.

the bigger the company the less likely any innovation will come. Bigger almost always means slow steady incremental change.

so 3rd edition. never ending supply of splat books.

There's been many very long threads about the fall of TSR. It was family drama, friend drama and just years of gamers trying to be gamers while running a business. It wasn't the boxed sets that killed them. It can probably be distilled down to the fact that the company didn't have a solid...

they also set them up for many other reasons, personal, and other. to simply say they only set up companie's to make profits is just silly. but yes they do need to make profits to continue.