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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 903120" data-attributes="member: 527">Lol.  Well, the knee-jerk reaction is to say, "Of course, ThingMart can do whatever it wants."  But when you become the dominant player in an industry, then the rules change for you.  Think of Microsoft.  When you own a practical monopoly then suddenly you can't do things like change your OS so non-Blue things don't run anymore or even bundle your Green things all together.  Want GreenOS?  Then buy Green Browser too.  That lands you in court for 5 years (even if you get away with it in the end.)  Overall, that's my problem with ThingMart.  I think its terribly disingenious of people to argue in this thread that they're shopping at ThingMart in order to preserve capitalism when ThingMart itself would love to crush every other competitor out of existence and then rake the consumer over the coals.  That's the nature of ThingMart's business model.I don't think there's anything inherently evil about buying from ThingMart; I'd just hate to see a long term future where the mass-market discounters won the fight with the FLGS.  "OK d20 publishers, here's what we want.  Our market research has shown that very few people actually have d20s.  But lots of people have d6s.  If you have any d6 games, we'll stock them.  But we can't afford the shelf space for d20 anymore."  Mass-marketeers cater to the lowest common denominator and the RPG industry does not fit nicely in that particular hole.</blockquote>

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