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<blockquote data-quote="Autumn Bask" data-source="post: 7772141" data-attributes="member: 6986805">WotC makes money by selling printed material. Hopefully for more money than it takes to employ their staff, otherwise they would be running at a loss, and it would be a miracle that they are supporting this game at all. (I'm going to assume this is not the case.) So please, explain to me how a dearth of new material is beneficial to their business, beyond maintaining the integrity of&nbsp; their game? How would this strategy allow hobby companies to print money? If we can assume that the books they publish net them a positive profit (which, if they didn't, they wouldn't make them at all), why is it greedy and lazy for them to heavily stagnate their releases, especially when they're still releasing free content like the UAs and Planeshifts. Why not just print a book with those materials in it? If there is a demand for Artificer, which there clearly is, and WotC is lazy, why aren't they just rushing out a scrapped-together book with an Artificer in it for easy sales?I think, as I stated in my previous post (and I'd still like to hear your response to that one), that the reason they're not doing this is because they care about maintaining the lifespan and accessibility of this system, and are cautious about introducing increased complexity and possibly destabilizing the system through an excess of additional crunch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Autumn Bask, post: 7772141, member: 6986805"] WotC makes money by selling printed material. Hopefully for more money than it takes to employ their staff, otherwise they would be running at a loss, and it would be a miracle that they are supporting this game at all. (I'm going to assume this is not the case.) So please, explain to me how a dearth of new material is beneficial to their business, beyond maintaining the integrity of their game? How would this strategy allow hobby companies to print money? If we can assume that the books they publish net them a positive profit (which, if they didn't, they wouldn't make them at all), why is it greedy and lazy for them to heavily stagnate their releases, especially when they're still releasing free content like the UAs and Planeshifts. Why not just print a book with those materials in it? If there is a demand for Artificer, which there clearly is, and WotC is lazy, why aren't they just rushing out a scrapped-together book with an Artificer in it for easy sales? I think, as I stated in my previous post (and I'd still like to hear your response to that one), that the reason they're not doing this is because they care about maintaining the lifespan and accessibility of this system, and are cautious about introducing increased complexity and possibly destabilizing the system through an excess of additional crunch. [/QUOTE]

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