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<blockquote data-quote="wakedown" data-source="post: 2632087" data-attributes="member: 15901">This thread's pretty entertaining... it validates that folks are almost never happy!Lots of people look for a reason not to like something - whether it's your job and you think to yourself how much better it would be to start your own company and not have to be forced to compromise quality for a deadline.&nbsp; But then you start your own company, and you're addressing an unmet market need and thinking to yourself how good things are.&nbsp; But the market need was a time-based opportunity which believe it or not, the market leader was moving on, but wasn't as agile as your nimble company.&nbsp; Now you're thinking to yourself, this is unfair - I was here first!&nbsp;&nbsp; But the folks at the big company may have been started it sooner - they were in the market first, and probably saw many of the same signs that food was being left on the table.&nbsp; Is anyone evil or bad?&nbsp; Not really, they are usually just moving as fast as they can to try to give their customers what they want to the best of their ability to execute.&nbsp; Both the big company and the small company.&nbsp; We all root for the little guys of course - this is one of the many reasons I'm using Firefox (which I mention low on my list lower than all the more feature-oriented reasons).I would bet anyone here that the smart folks at WOTC (not saying WOTC as a whole is smart, but the more astute business folks at the company) are thinking more about how to make the whole pie bigger over how do I gobble up a bigger percentage of the pie.&nbsp; Technically, the whole P&amp;P (pen &amp; paper) pie needs to get bigger and from what I can tell this industry is as natural as any other.I'll buy any product that resonates with my need, whether it's the market leader making it or a nimble start-up that got something hot off the press to me just in time for when I needed it most.&nbsp; The fact that folks from these companies are reading our forums is GREAT... we're probably all going to get what we want from someone.&nbsp; I can just see the office banter now - &quot;I'm telling you Bob, I have over a hundred data points that prove our customers will pay $50-60 for an epic hardcover campaign setting that can be adapted to any of the worlds&quot;; &quot;I guarantee you Janet, I have many signs if we produce a leather-bound PHB we can sell it to 20% of the folks who bought the standard version.&quot;;&nbsp; &quot;No Jim, we cannot do release anything else on drow, my samples show 7/10 customers are drow-saturated and will not make another drow-related purchase for 12 months&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wakedown, post: 2632087, member: 15901"] This thread's pretty entertaining... it validates that folks are almost never happy! Lots of people look for a reason not to like something - whether it's your job and you think to yourself how much better it would be to start your own company and not have to be forced to compromise quality for a deadline. But then you start your own company, and you're addressing an unmet market need and thinking to yourself how good things are. But the market need was a time-based opportunity which believe it or not, the market leader was moving on, but wasn't as agile as your nimble company. Now you're thinking to yourself, this is unfair - I was here first! But the folks at the big company may have been started it sooner - they were in the market first, and probably saw many of the same signs that food was being left on the table. Is anyone evil or bad? Not really, they are usually just moving as fast as they can to try to give their customers what they want to the best of their ability to execute. Both the big company and the small company. We all root for the little guys of course - this is one of the many reasons I'm using Firefox (which I mention low on my list lower than all the more feature-oriented reasons). I would bet anyone here that the smart folks at WOTC (not saying WOTC as a whole is smart, but the more astute business folks at the company) are thinking more about how to make the whole pie bigger over how do I gobble up a bigger percentage of the pie. Technically, the whole P&P (pen & paper) pie needs to get bigger and from what I can tell this industry is as natural as any other. I'll buy any product that resonates with my need, whether it's the market leader making it or a nimble start-up that got something hot off the press to me just in time for when I needed it most. The fact that folks from these companies are reading our forums is GREAT... we're probably all going to get what we want from someone. I can just see the office banter now - "I'm telling you Bob, I have over a hundred data points that prove our customers will pay $50-60 for an epic hardcover campaign setting that can be adapted to any of the worlds"; "I guarantee you Janet, I have many signs if we produce a leather-bound PHB we can sell it to 20% of the folks who bought the standard version."; "No Jim, we cannot do release anything else on drow, my samples show 7/10 customers are drow-saturated and will not make another drow-related purchase for 12 months" [/QUOTE]

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