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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim Hague" data-source="post: 3270986" data-attributes="member: 17550">Market stablization at the point of effectively being no market is inherently worthless.Thing is, that smaller market, historically, produces less quality content at a higher price.  As for rules bloat...that's a matter of what you buy.  The majority of folks out there like rules, crunchy stuff, and that's what they buy.  I personally don't use most of it, but I like the option being there.  At some point, there's too much product - hence why you end up with the d20 bubble bursting and reorganizing at a smaller, fall-out level.  But a hobbyist market isn't a market at all; it's a return to the earliest days of games, where product was neither consistent or readily available.  Not good.And for a hobby to remain anything but a historical footnote, it needs to be dynamic.  New ideas and new players drive this.  Status quo simply doesn't work.And a market that sinks below sustainable levels isn't a market at all.  I neither want every supplement to cost $100 because it's what some few content producers can charge, being the only game in town (GW, I'm looking at you), nor slapdash, poorly-produced flotsam by some guy with no design aesthetic, experience, or care for anything other than scribbling their ideas down.  There's a balance to be struck.</blockquote>