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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TikkchikFenTikktikk" data-source="post: 5507370" data-attributes="member: 67494">WotC is not in trouble. Magic: the Gathering has never been more popular in paper form. My understanding is that Magic Online has basically recovered from the v3 fiasco and is printing money. The console game is hugely popular. Also, Duel Masters is also very successul in Southeast Asian markets. CCGs will keep the company alive for a long time to come.Don't forget they also have a genre fiction group and the Avalon Hill boardgame group. I'm sure the fiction publishing is hurting with the rest of the publishing industry (none of their books are in the top 100 on Amazon's Fantasy bestseller list as I write this), but they're still putting out more pulp each month than they are 4E supplements. They have also made the move to publishing their fiction as ebooks.Avalon Hill's limited product line up is doing OK, I'd guess. I'm not as familiar with how this group has been selling. It's line has been pared back and there are very few new releases, but it's almost all acknowledged classics with quality production that is rivaled only by Fantasy Flight's ridiculously gorgeous products. It's my understanding that the naval warfare CMG published by that group is hugely popular amongst grognards who get into that sort of thing and Wizards is able to maintain it with very limited resources. Two of the Axis & Allies products are in the Top 25 of Amazon's strategy boardgame list, with a Heroscape product above them, and several more products in the top 100; therefore my guess this group is doing OK.So while the problems with 4E seem pretty bad and its death would be a terrible, terrible thing it is not a thing that will kill the company.</blockquote>

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