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<blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 4752220" data-attributes="member: 6616">Well, the obvious choice is of course the good things from both (a corporate giant with full marketing departments that care about the game and its players) but if I had to choose, I'd go for the corporate giant with the impersonal business ethics.Why?Because there are already a lot of smaller companies that offer games (very much D&amp;D in style, among others) and which &quot;care about the game and its players&quot;. I think that having at least on giant corporation with the reach of WotC/Hasbro in the mix is interesting and ultimately good for the game.If nothing else, it gives the smaller players a good and solid fumbling juggernaut to base their marketing on, e.g. the recent spate of &quot;we love PDF so buy from us! We care about you, we're not like the big bad corporation!&quot; initiatives.Then again, I have a theory of my own, and that is that any company that owns D&amp;D becomes &quot;the evil corporate money-grubbing blight on gamerdom&quot; in many gamers eyes. The biggest fish are always seen as the bad guys.Note that I don't presume to speak for the community. It's all my opinion, YMMV and so on so forth./M</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maggan, post: 4752220, member: 6616"] Well, the obvious choice is of course the good things from both (a corporate giant with full marketing departments that care about the game and its players) but if I had to choose, I'd go for the corporate giant with the impersonal business ethics. Why? Because there are already a lot of smaller companies that offer games (very much D&D in style, among others) and which "care about the game and its players". I think that having at least on giant corporation with the reach of WotC/Hasbro in the mix is interesting and ultimately good for the game. If nothing else, it gives the smaller players a good and solid fumbling juggernaut to base their marketing on, e.g. the recent spate of "we love PDF so buy from us! We care about you, we're not like the big bad corporation!" initiatives. Then again, I have a theory of my own, and that is that any company that owns D&D becomes "the evil corporate money-grubbing blight on gamerdom" in many gamers eyes. The biggest fish are always seen as the bad guys. Note that I don't presume to speak for the community. It's all my opinion, YMMV and so on so forth. /M [/QUOTE]

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