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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fighter1" data-source="post: 2769758" data-attributes="member: 39381">Whoa…hold on now; lets keep in mind that distributers and many retailers may or may not know anything about RPG’s; it is not like say Wine where if you know a few things you can at least tell the difference between 2-buck chuck and actual Napa wine.For example: It is pretty easy to find WoTC stuff at every major book outlet; why; the name itself makes the quality check (no opinions please – this is just as an example) – Hasbro & WoTC, etc.That only happened when say V3.0 & 3.5 happened; when everyone needed to get the new books to play the game. Now people just pick and choose what they want so the sales, compared to previously, are far lower. But RPG books are like reference books; once you got them you got them; not like a paperback novel where you keep buying new ones over and over.Layoffs are part of every industry – let me tell ya form experience! They happen more in those industries that are dependant upon volume sales (like catering to the retail market). Plus, after reading all these threads on the actual industry that are out here over the past couple of weeks, the industry is full of free lancers at all levels so why in the world would anyone pay for an actual employee when they can get a private contractor for less?In any event why all the doom and gloom people? Think about it; even if Hasbro nixed WoTC someone would pop in and take hold of the industry and make a living at it. There are MILLIONS of gamers worldwide.After posting on this now – I think the big issue these days is like the post I made above; far to many players sucking sales away from the quality guys  - the highest quality guys in my limited experience are WoTC, Malkovich Press and Mongoose. I am sure there may be others (but of the 8-10 or so I have sampled and bought these three were the best by far) but if the field narrowed to three (or less) like these guys I would bet that profits and pay would be far better.</blockquote>

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