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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SBMC" data-source="post: 2736644" data-attributes="member: 30040">Sorry - you are incorrect - beyond incorrect. When one makes the statement I did then that incorporates all that you have outlined. It does not matter how it occurred – the fact of the matter it did occur. The details you outline are symptoms and consequences of the product becoming the “best in the market”. Sales/revenue/net income defines the best; defining the best does not come from how it got there in economic or business terms but only the fact that it did. Want an example? Apple was far better quality then Microsoft; but Microsoft won that war and became the “best”; the highest seller with the most customers. Apple started out way ahead; and still failed.Want another example? Japanese Cars; because of the exchange rate and labor advantages Japan could produce superior cars at an equal or lower price than the U.S. could. Because the Japanese companies essentially owned their workers (provided housing, food, schooling etc.) and the government would intentionally induce inflation into their own economy alongside core price controls (and still do it) to keep that exchange rate as high as possible does that mean that the Japanese cars are not “the best”? Based upon how they got there? In the early days to make a Japanese car the way the did in Japan would cost double (just the cost mind you not retail price) the price of a U.S. car. Technically in ethical terms - the Japanese had an unfair advantage.The market decides it all; everything else is aside. If you want to dig down and do comparisons that is fine; sales = best = the market says so; every economist since Adam Smith says so; economists and business folks (of which I am both) are trained in this way and always have been for decades and always will be – why – because it holds true.You can argue the morality and environmental causes all day long; but at the end of the day the market decides who is the best which is defined by sales. Now as I had stated before; once a monopoly condition (or close to it) occurs (such as Microsoft today) things are far different as the laws and theories of economics are then skewed. However the RPG industry is far from this; excessively far.</blockquote>

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