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<blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8859648" data-attributes="member: 27996"><p>That's <em>Corporatism</em>.</p><p></p><p>A very different thing...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In Gygax's defense; even he was taken aback by the demand for campaign settings and Lore. Which is why he finally did Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p>There is, and will always be, a subset of the hobby that very much does want the RPG company to do their imagining for them. There are various reasons for this, mostly revolving around time constraints, and the ease of just cracking a module and playing through as a group with minimal prep.</p><p></p><p>Gygax would have been silly not to cater to that market. And it is one that WotC has made a lot of money by doing so...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Therein lies the rub. WotC has been deft in elevating the reach of D&D within the hobby, while it's erstwhile competitors such as Vampire/WoD etc, have mismanaged themselves into a decreasing market share within the same.</p><p></p><p>It is not WotC's fault that their competitors have mismanaged themselves.</p><p></p><p>But I also don't think that it has been very good for the hobby that D&D has gone from the 800lb. gorilla, to the 80'000lb. King Kong of the hobby.</p><p></p><p>I do think that this will self-correct over time however...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaeger, post: 8859648, member: 27996"] That's [I]Corporatism[/I]. A very different thing... In Gygax's defense; even he was taken aback by the demand for campaign settings and Lore. Which is why he finally did Greyhawk. There is, and will always be, a subset of the hobby that very much does want the RPG company to do their imagining for them. There are various reasons for this, mostly revolving around time constraints, and the ease of just cracking a module and playing through as a group with minimal prep. Gygax would have been silly not to cater to that market. And it is one that WotC has made a lot of money by doing so... Therein lies the rub. WotC has been deft in elevating the reach of D&D within the hobby, while it's erstwhile competitors such as Vampire/WoD etc, have mismanaged themselves into a decreasing market share within the same. It is not WotC's fault that their competitors have mismanaged themselves. But I also don't think that it has been very good for the hobby that D&D has gone from the 800lb. gorilla, to the 80'000lb. King Kong of the hobby. I do think that this will self-correct over time however... [/QUOTE]
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