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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ogrork the Mighty" data-source="post: 2719380" data-attributes="member: 19042">Agreed, assuming the cost to enter the market isn't too great.However, I think what you'll also find is that companies will try to maximize their profits by concentrating on the minis that sell best and dropping the rest. That might be okay for a time, but after a while you'll notice how the variety of minis is sorely lacking and it'll be next to impossible to get that weird mini that you really want/need.Personally, I hate the fact that DDMs are random. That's why I don't buy very many retail. Pretty much 95% of my purchases are from the secondary market, and probably 95% of those are from Ebay. I have over 2,000 DDMs now and usually in quite high numbers of duplicates (which I want). Those minis I don't like I never buy so at least I have the advantage of having pretty close to 2,000 minis that I actually want and will use, rather than 2,000 minis of which only half I really want.As for what's missing, I'd like to see them branch out into non-creature minis. Stuff like siege weapons, wagons, room furnishings, etc. The currently available market for such minis is simply cost-prohibitive, IMHO. Taking such a course of action would allow WotC to further corner the market and draw in more fantasy mini seekers. I know I don't even bother looking at Warhammer minis anymore b/c there's simply no way to justify paying $30-50 for 15-20 "common" minis. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but you'll definitely see some fallout for other mini companies as a result of WotC's success with the DDMs.</blockquote>

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