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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chriton227" data-source="post: 6532219" data-attributes="member: 33263">So because not all games are successful, they shouldn't even try?  Even if a game isn't a blockbuster success, it can still be a good return on investment if WotC doesn't have to make a particularly large investment into the effort.And as far as it not being able to be repeated, they already did.  Neverwinter Nights sold over 2 million copies, about the same as Baldur's Gate.  And before BG, the old Pool of Radiance gold box game sold 250k copies, which for it's time was huge (15% of homes had PCs in 1988, compared with over 80% now).Look, I know you want more 5e RPG stuff released.  I think at this point everyone on ENWorld knows you want more 5e stuff released.  But the one thing you keep missing is that WotC doesn't exist to make D&D 5e books.  They don't even exist to make Magic cards.  They exist to make money for Hasbro's shareholders.  They have apparently decided that churning out the books you want at the pace you want isn't the best way to do that.  If you disagree, feel free to tell WotC that.  Feel free to go to Greg Leeds, President of Wizards of the Coast, and state your case that you can run the D&D brand better than their current staff can. If you can convince him that your way of doing things is best, maybe you can take the reins and steer it the direction you want to go.  Or organize a group of investors to offer to buy the D&D brand from WotC so you can run it the way you think it needs to be run.  But just repeating the same line about how they aren't making enough books for you and you don't like that they are trying to diversify the brand isn't going to change anything.  The people you are saying these things are not in a position to make any changes to how things are done, they have no more influence over WotC's decisions than you do. Your view is not the community consensus, there is no community consensus on the issue. There have been posters agreeing with you, there have been posters that disagree with you that things need to change, and there have been posters that agree things should change but not in the way you want. Discussing these things can be good, but only if people keep an open mind and actually listen to what other people are saying instead of dismissing everyone with a different opinion; dismissing everyone who disagrees with you doesn't automatically make you right and them wrong.  And for the record, I'm one who would like to see more stand-alone adventures and campaign setting material released, but not all the splatbooks that the previous editions were known for.  But I also acknowledge that what I want and what is best financially for WotC may not be the same thing, and without the detailed knowledge of their licensing agreements, sales information, production costs, fixed expenses, and future brand strategy, any opinion any of us could voice about how they are handling things is nothing but poorly informed opinion, useful for entertaining discussions but nothing but noise when it comes to the actual business strategy.</blockquote>

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