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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6397772" data-attributes="member: 37579">1) Arguably, it was not listening to their fanbase that caused them to lose their position of market leader, a postion they lost for four years and are still playing catch-up. 2) WotC lost their lead in the market while still publishing books, as early as Fall 2010. 3) We still don't know if WotC has reliably regained its spot as "industry leader" in any permenant capacityIf WotC takes a my-way-or-the-highway approach to their fans and pricing, the fans have shown they are quite willing to take the "highway" option. WotC is still the biggest company, but they're up against some good competition now. There's a lot of smaller Kickstarter funded companies and games willing to give them a run for their money. I paid the $50 because I like my FLGS. That's the only reason I that price was acceptable over amazon. And even then the $58 CAD I paid was pretty steep, and hard to justify. If the splatbooks have an equivalent price/content I might skip. I'm already wary of the Elemental Evil Adventurer's Handbook as it sounds pretty pricey. The focus of the conversation has been on core books.  I have no idea about supplement books.  I think that is yet another sub-set of the industry which has it's own factors.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]