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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bardsandsages" data-source="post: 3362057" data-attributes="member: 28771">You just are looking in the wrong places.  In writers' forums, writers whine all the time that publishers only accept "bestsellers" and works by already established writers.  Talk to moviephiles, and they complain that the Oscars don't truely represent great movies, only Hollywood politics.  Folks complain, because most folks rationalize under the premise that the way they think is the way others think, and they are incapable of accepting the notion that others can see things differently.I love the hobby.  But as a publisher the hobby is not a charity for every person's favorite orphaned setting either.  You create products based on what people are actually buying.  If product line X makes you 50% of your money, product line Y makes you 25%, and everything else covers the other 25%, where logically is the bulk of the production money suppose to go?  It's not evil.  It's not "corrupting the game."  It's common sense.But folks rationalize based on what they like, and assume others should like the same things.  Therefore, the only thing that makes sense to them is that a publisher is deliberately ignoring a product line and trying to force something on the public, when the reality of the matter is that the publisher is moving in the direction of what the public wants.</blockquote>