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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5375841" data-attributes="member: 7006">And why is it that Wizards doesn't sell these things?  Could it be that it's because they've TRIED the miniatures market and it didn't succeed enough to warrant massive continuation?  And don't you think that after 30+ years, the owners of the D&D copywrite would have started to produce a line of cloth maps if they found that actually would sell?  Heck, I barely ever hear of any third-party companies that make their business on cloth maps.  And the same holds true for 3D terrain or special D&D fantasy art books.  Just because YOU would buy it... doesn't mean it is a viable income source.Wizards of the Coast is a GAME company.  They produce GAMES... whether that is in book form or online.  And personally, I can't believe how some of you folks give WotC so little credit when you just tell us you can't understand why WotC doesn't go into those OTHER markets because "that's where the money is".  Just how blind do you think this company is?  Doesn't the fact that they DON'T saturate the market with miniatures, but DO produce monthly volumes of game rules give us a pretty good indication of where the money REALLY is?  I'm not saying they're flawless and everything they touch is gold... but I am saying that I think most of the time the things WotC avoids touching is probably crap (from a money-making perspective for a company of WotC's size). But maybe you know the gross yearly income of Reaper Miniatures and it truly is more than WotC pulls in.  If that's the case and you have evidence to prove it, I'd gladly come back here and change my statement.</blockquote>

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