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<blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 1442684" data-attributes="member: 3608">Anyone who thinks they are going to get rich publishing roleplaying games is living in a fantasy world. If you produce multiple roleplaying games, you might acheive a comfortable income. Most likely you'll need to diversify and publish/manufacture non-roleplaying products as well.EA sells a new edition of Madden football every year. Do you think they'd be wise to up it to 4 editions a year? How about 1 a month?Core rulebooks may make WotC more money than other roleplaying products, but I'm betting they are far from WotC's most profitable product. Certainly they aren't Hasbro's most profitable product.Nobody* has a problem with paying for roleplaying products. Nobody* has a problem with roleplaying publishers making a living.I'm interested to see whether WotC keeps a new edition of D&amp;D every 3 years strategy. If so, I'll be interested to see what its long term effects are. I won't be optimistic, though.*Hyperbole. I'm sure there are a handful of exceptions.(Now, the fact that some people are giving SJGames flak for publishing a new edition of GURPS after c. 15 years, that I find amazing. Wait...no I don't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RFisher, post: 1442684, member: 3608"] Anyone who thinks they are going to get rich publishing roleplaying games is living in a fantasy world. If you produce [i]multiple[/i] roleplaying games, you [i]might[/i] acheive a comfortable income. Most likely you'll need to diversify and publish/manufacture non-roleplaying products as well. EA sells a new edition of Madden football every year. Do you think they'd be wise to up it to 4 editions a year? How about 1 a month? Core rulebooks [i]may[/i] make WotC more money than other roleplaying products, but I'm betting they are far from WotC's most profitable product. Certainly they aren't Hasbro's most profitable product. Nobody* has a problem with paying for roleplaying products. Nobody* has a problem with roleplaying publishers making a living. I'm interested to see whether WotC keeps a new edition of D&D every 3 years strategy. If so, I'll be interested to see what its long term effects are. I won't be optimistic, though. *Hyperbole. I'm sure there are a handful of exceptions. (Now, the fact that some people are giving SJGames flak for publishing a new edition of GURPS after c. 15 years, [i]that[/i] I find amazing. Wait...no I don't. :)) [/QUOTE]

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