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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9166474" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Companies are not, in the long term, going to publish because of love of the game.  They may say that but unless you're a boutique privately owned organization it's just not going to happen.  Let's put it another way.  If you can put $1,000 in a bank and earn 2% interest or put it into a hedge fund and make 8% where are most people going to invest their money?  Assuming that you believe the latter is a safe investment you're going to put that grand into a hedge fund. So no, I don't begrudge companies setting profit expectations.  It's just reality.  Very few people will willingly lose money (or make significantly less return on their money) in the long run unless they are incredibly passionate about what they're spending money on. Companies are not charities.Oh, and unless you've had a peak at the books, do you have any source for the profitability of 3E?  Did they continue to sell core product and was new product actually profitable?P.S. I'd love it if some billionaire bought out D&D and made it their passion project and didn't care about making a dime (or even 2-3 dimes) on sales.  Especially if they paid me a bazillion dollars to be a consultant. But if wishes were horses we'd be hip deep in horse pucky.</blockquote>