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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 395514" data-attributes="member: 812">Sure -- and they will. Once the money to be made selling those books is no longer enough to justify withholding them from the market (that is, once the release of that material will increase PHB sales to a point of value higher than the sales of the supplement itself), of course they'll release them. That's a pretty tricky equation to juggle, of course and there will no doubt be stumbles and disagreements on the way, but yeah, that seems like the smart thing to do to me.Keep thinking of the PHB as Monopoly. For the next fifty years, Hasbro wants to keep on selling that one book. No further investment, no expense beyond printing and shipping, no risk, year after year of CONSISTENT revenue. Maybe not maximised revenue, but consistent. That's what I would want if I were running Hasbro. And the best way to do that is to divest the company of everything else, give the community the tools and opportunities to develop their own supporting materials, and just keep rolling PHBs off the presses.I don't know that this is possible. Nobody's ever tried it before. I'm very intrigued to see how it will all work out, that's for sure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 395514, member: 812"] Sure -- and they will. Once the money to be made selling those books is no longer enough to justify withholding them from the market (that is, once the release of that material will increase PHB sales to a point of value higher than the sales of the supplement itself), of course they'll release them. That's a pretty tricky equation to juggle, of course and there will no doubt be stumbles and disagreements on the way, but yeah, that seems like the smart thing to do to me. Keep thinking of the PHB as Monopoly. For the next fifty years, Hasbro wants to keep on selling that one book. No further investment, no expense beyond printing and shipping, no risk, year after year of CONSISTENT revenue. Maybe not maximised revenue, but consistent. That's what I would want if I were running Hasbro. And the best way to do that is to divest the company of everything else, give the community the tools and opportunities to develop their own supporting materials, and just keep rolling PHBs off the presses. I don't know that this is possible. Nobody's ever tried it before. I'm very intrigued to see how it will all work out, that's for sure. [/QUOTE]

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