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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shasarak" data-source="post: 7079266" data-attributes="member: 94143">Well, to be fair, my personal definition of 2e started in 86 with the ousting of Gary so really the company lasted for 11 more years under the new management.In my experience with buying on credit is that you pay monthly, so missing 3 payments only gives you a 3 month buffer.  Any staff you have that are not called Edmond Halley need to be paid cash as well so really you can not be insolvent for long before your company collapses.I believe the line of "splitting the fan base" is really so much bs when you consider that you rarely, if ever, see any other company selling a one size fits all product.  I mean I guess it could work in the Soviet Union where you have one state run company making one product but where else is it going to work?  Now I realise that it may be more profitable for the company if everyone buys one product every six months; the old "You can have any colour you want as long as it is black".  But in that case all we get is the bog standard generic "black" fantasy and never ever get to see the Ebberons or Dark Suns or Spelljammers because they do not make the same profit as Forgotten Realms.  Which would have been a horrible shame in my opinion.  I mean speaking personally the last product produced by WotC that was interesting enough for me to buy was back in Sep 15 which means that it maybe 2 years between purchases depending on what the Sep 17 release is going to be.  And I guess that is the six month release schedule working as intended.So if we look at the real problem of your number 1 it comes down to a) print runs being too big and b) selling costs being too low.  You really have no excuse of selling a product for less then the cost it takes for you to make it and I really dont see how the 2e system is responsible for those types of business mistakes.</blockquote>

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