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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6292419" data-attributes="member: 22424">Good point.How about this, then: WotC won't be doing the MMO/video games in-house - they simply don't have the expertise for it, and will therefore license out the property. So, no need for in-house RPG writers for that.I really don't share your confidence on that one. Though I'm entirely prepared to be wrong about it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Sort of. Pathfinder got a massive boost in the early days because of the subscriber base they inherited from Dragon/Dungeon, and that subscription model is pretty key to its ongoing success. It's not so much adventures that have proven to be successful, it's subscriptions to adventures.Now, if WotC do indeed revive the magazines and switch to using in-house rather than freelance authors (or, equally, they start rolling out their official adventures through the DDI mechanism), then that subscription mechanism comes into play. But for physical products, WotC just aren't set up to follow Pathfinder's lead - they don't do direct sales, they're not set up to handle subscriptions, and they don't have a subscriber base to inherit.(And, as I've said up-thread, I doubt whether there will be a set of 5e DDI tools, without which the value of the rest of the package becomes questionable. Once again, I'm entirely prepared to be wrong about that one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>

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