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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oracular Vision" data-source="post: 240437" data-attributes="member: 2265">In tough economic times, companies return to their core business, those that aren't too busy falsifying their financial statements that is.What this means is you dump underperformers (Chainmail)\You sell off marginal performers outside your core business (Dragon/Dungeon magazine, you are not a magazine company, you are a game company)And you sell off good performers outside your core business (the computer games rights sell-off that killed Master Tools)These are all standard practices for businesses, right out of Harvard Business School, and should shock no one.By extension, role-playing games are not the core business...Adkinson and Gygax could swing the finances. I doubt Monte, Skip, or Sean could. I expect the line to be sold whenever the revenue stream flattens out, i.e., when the products have reached saturation, and I suspect that is already happening. Bean counters like quick cash from businesses they don't understand. I think it would be better off in the hands of a business whose only business is RPG. And that day is coming...</blockquote>