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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Croesus" data-source="post: 5446550" data-attributes="member: 35019">No worries - you're attacking my position, not me, so it's all good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My contention is that the TTRPG market is so small that there is only room for one market leader. All the others simply don't make enough money to make it worthwhile. And even the market leader apparently isn't making enough actual dollars to be considered an important part of Hasbro's business. Let me put it this way - every company can only focus on so many priorities. Start too many projects and initiatives and bad things begin to happen. If I'm running a firm that can invest in TTRPG's, why would I do so unless I not only get a good rate of return, but sufficient actual dollars to make it worth my attention? The opportunity costs have to be taken into account. Add in the boom/bust cycle TTRPG's have experienced in the past, and I can certainly understand why there aren't potential investors lined up around the block to throw money at the industry.Let's assume your statement is 100% accurate. Then the only conclusion I can make is that the industry does not provide sufficent rate of return to justify potential investment. Is that your contention? Or, approaching it from the other side, are there such significant benefits in staying private that no company other than WOTC has stopped being a private entity?</blockquote>

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