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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 6759618" data-attributes="member: 18182">If that was your question, it should have been ignored (sorry). There are some small companies that have only made products available through Kickstarter, but large companies use a variety of ways to get products to market, and WotC is the biggest (in our industry). And even those small companies who have not reached beyond Kickstarter yet hope to become successful enough so that they CAN sell through a variety of retail channels and not be "Kickstarter-exclusive".As a previous poster noted, WotC's business structure probably makes it unlikely they will ever use Kickstarter. There's nothing really stopping them if they wanted to, but they are too large, too corporate, and too bureaucratic to make Kickstarter an easy choice. And if they did decide to use the platform, they would be fools to only make products available through the site, and no one (in this thread or otherwise) has advocated that they do that. It'd be pretty stupid.IMO, under the current situation, WotC WILL NOT produce a big, beautiful, 400 page behemoth of a campaign setting book for the Forgotten Realms (or for any of their settings). It doesn't fit their current business model and resources, and not enough gamers out there would buy it to make it worthwhile . . . THROUGH NORMAL RETAIL CHANNELS. However, WotC could use Kickstarter to fund such a beast, and it only gets made if enough gamers pony up the dough FIRST, proving that there is a market. Once the Kickstarter closed, WotC could make retail copies available, or simply keep it Kickstarter exclusive for the small population who would actually want and be willing to purchase such a book.I think it's a great idea! Probably a good thing I'm not one of the decision-makers at WotC!</blockquote>

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