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<blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9281694" data-attributes="member: 7044462">For us players, maybe. But for people who design and sell games and gaming accessories for living, they are business first. There are still companies that produce stuff for niche hobbies. Those companies may not be multinational corporations, but they make enough for their owners to keep them in business. Somebody mentioned about marketing budgets. If you want to compete with the big boys, you need big boys money. Small companies don't have large sums of money to burn on marketing, that's true. But let's be honest, without marketing, it's hard to capture market share. What good is excellent product if nobody knows that product exists? So they need to be creative how they use their money and shoot for biggest ROI. Or, you know, couple of smaller companies can merge into a bigger one with more funds. Corporate mergers are not that uncommon even with smaller companies. TTRPGs have harsh competition. It's not just other TTRPGs. It's all forms of entertainment, and we are living in the times with more entertainment options than ever in history. They compete both for customers money and free time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GrimCo, post: 9281694, member: 7044462"] For us players, maybe. But for people who design and sell games and gaming accessories for living, they are business first. There are still companies that produce stuff for niche hobbies. Those companies may not be multinational corporations, but they make enough for their owners to keep them in business. Somebody mentioned about marketing budgets. If you want to compete with the big boys, you need big boys money. Small companies don't have large sums of money to burn on marketing, that's true. But let's be honest, without marketing, it's hard to capture market share. What good is excellent product if nobody knows that product exists? So they need to be creative how they use their money and shoot for biggest ROI. Or, you know, couple of smaller companies can merge into a bigger one with more funds. Corporate mergers are not that uncommon even with smaller companies. TTRPGs have harsh competition. It's not just other TTRPGs. It's all forms of entertainment, and we are living in the times with more entertainment options than ever in history. They compete both for customers money and free time. [/QUOTE]

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