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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4470516" data-attributes="member: 52839">Actually, becoming larger makes the overhead per product go down, because they can buy materials in larger, discounted orders, making their purchasing power much stronger, which allows them to afford more bells and whistles like hardback publications, high quality paper, and their own legal department. Also, as I was shown recently, WOTC is not publicly traded.RPG's are a niche market, but when I used the term, I was referring to that they weren't niching into ultra-complex RPG's or obscure genres.I have to disagree. Their online initiative wasn't "an attempt to stay online". It was an attempt to grab the majority share of the online RPG community, which is good business. It failed for the reasons I described. They spread themselves too thin, failing to pace themselves. Any business that wants to survive in this day and age has to have an online presence. Without it, they are sure to fail.But I must ask you to elaborate on how their online presence is going to cause the industry to crash. That was an unsupported slippery slope that I need the support for to understand your meaning. Or you could just say it's just an opinion you hold and I'll respect that as a no need to discuss. Though if someone else comes up with something and you wish to use your view as grounds for the discussion, it would be good for us to know the support for the view.</blockquote>