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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5846470" data-attributes="member: 82106">Eh, 20th Century thinking IMHO. Consider, Traveller is basically dead, certainly isn't making Marc Miller or anyone else any significant money. RQ is likewise dead. CoC staggers on, but ToC is eating its lunch at this point (and is IMHO a far better and more modern game), etc. Store shelves are just not where you get eyeballs anymore, and Dragon was always nothing but a TSR/WotC house organ. While in the VERY early issues there was now and then some minor nod to the existence of RPGs and gaming outside of D&D it was always basically nothing but a D&D magazine (and I say this as someone who's subscription goes back to issue #11). Dropping the D&D branding from your FRPG would be ludicrously bad for WotC. There's no reason for them to do that, and no real reason for it to matter. If they can't change the game in any really meaningful way then there's no point putting it out at all, and no point in anyone buying it vs just playing the 1e or 2e or whatever that they already own.In this day and age you need a presence online, you need your entertainment product to be accessible online, and you really ultimately want to be able to charge incremental service charges for access to it. That's just the business reality that exists today.</blockquote>