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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 2748562" data-attributes="member: 9053">While that may be your assessment, that is just an opinion, not an objective fact. What I have seen here (and, this is just my opinion) is on the issue of what Charles said, you believe that what he said could very likely just have been corporate doublespeak. What I and others have said is that it would be very unwise for him to make such statements in a public forum.Does that mean that you're not right? No, he might very well have been speaking that way. However, given the fact that no further clarification was made, it is unlikely to be the case. Is it impossible? No, certainly not, but it is unlikely. In the post Enron world, there have been many changes to the way businesses have been forced to operate. Some of them, to my mind, have even been overreaction and are downright silly, but, like it or not, the world has changed. Did all of these corporations suddenly become "good" in D&D terms? Of course not.So we really are having three different discussions in this thread:One: is there a decline in RPG sales?Two: are companies like WotC and Mongoose lying when they say that they're increasing in sales and doing fine?Three: If someone from a company that is publicly traded makes statements in a forum like ENWorld, can they become accountable for them?My answers to these three questions:One: Yes.Two: No.Three: Yes.The third question is really the most off-topic, so that's the one we're debating the hottest. Perhaps we should stick to one and two?Let me add a question four to this mix (and this will be the question that cares):Is there a fundamental difference in the market between the companies that are distributed in traditional retail versus those who are only marketed the RPG channels?I would say "yes" to this one, because it puts everything in this and other threads I have been reading recently into perspective.Companies that are being distributed through traditional book chains and have proper distribution with companies like Amazon are doing well. Those that don't aren't.Comments?</blockquote>

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