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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EarthsShadow" data-source="post: 352059" data-attributes="member: 3531">shares...If there are 2 million active DnD players, and if each bought even 5 shares of Hasbro stock, how much stock would that be?  10 million shares, and if we all purchased it with the agreement that we want Hasbro to devote some energy to our game, and our market, would 10 million shares be enough?  I sure hope my math is right.  13*5 = $65.00, which is the cost of two main rulebooks...Personally, even if 1/4 of the active DnD players bought stock, those with jobs and money, at 13$ a share that's still not bad, so if 500,000 people bought 20 shares (13*20 = $260) over the course of a three month time, and we all agreed, that would still be 10M total for the gaming community, right?  It wouldn't cost us much to do this.Plus, if we suddenly purchased that many that quick, you can bet that the cost of the shares would suddenly increase, and that would put money in the pocket's of Hasbro collective bunch of moneymongers...their profits would go up, and we might have some leverage that if they do not cater to the gaming community, we sell our stocks when the price for the stocks increase above 20$, maybe even 30$...then let's see how long their company lasts when they lose that much money.  I guess if something like this would happen, this would be the first time in history that all roleplaying gamers stuck together to deliver a message to a corporate company.  I would be a part of this if everyone else agreed to it, and if we all are upset about the decisions, and if we are truly dissatisfied with how Hasbro is handling things, the only way to get their attention is with $$$, not just words, and the only way to affect them is with their stocks.  Buy the stocks, increase the price of the stock to hopefully double, then threaten to sell them.  Hit Hasbro where it hurts, and after all, its only business, right?</blockquote>

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