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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xechnao" data-source="post: 4847121" data-attributes="member: 58105">Pathfinder's market success has to do at 100% with the profitability of the Pathfinder rpg line. For Wotc, D&D's market success -and thus further investment in the line and further development- is also connected to the performance of other values that are controlled by the D&D merchandise. Do you have any facts that tell you so?If the D&D merchandise performed badly and you could make a sweet deal with someone that had some chances to revive it, would you do it or not? Of course, you could be a company that tries to kill by competition rather than create by competition. That is take advantage of the destructive forces of the competition rather than the creative ones- but in a creative environment it is usually the later than the former. Most video game companies would not seek to shelf video game lines for example in a similar situation -this is my general impression. Of course Hasbro could behave differently but it would pay the PR price, especially if some company announced that was interested to buy and carry on said line but Hasbro chose to shelf it instead.</blockquote>