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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3367306" data-attributes="member: 4134">I'd say that there's more than just want or don't want involved if the alternative is simply that much more profitable. What do you consider that much more profitable? Making twice as much profit? Three times? 5?Now imagine yourself in the position to tell the shareholders (which Wizards has, as far as I know) that you voluntarily surrendered 50-80% of the possible profit. I think the next question you're going to ask anybody at this point will be "Do you want fries with that?"Did the mods edit out large parts of your post, or did you just forget to add sense?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I think the majority uses them for RPG, and only some actually play the skirmish game (which is fun, by the way. Nice way to spend an hour playing something akin to D&D, but more of a board/tabletop game, with a friend. You need neither hours nor crowds.). Collectors are also roleplayers and/or skirmishers most of the time. It's true that many of the figures won't get out that often, but I wouldn't say never, and I wouldn't say the majority. Personally, I really do think that roleplayers are the number one customer for this.Charles Ryan, as well as other Wizards people, talked about it here, in an earlier thread (or threads. I know that one of them was quite recent and I think that a link to it is in this very thread).It seems that many shops woudln't have the space to stock yet another game that eats up space. And Wizards is convinced that they can't displace Games Workshop.And, of course, there's the thing about plastic minis needing to be made in large numbers to be profitable (lot of fixed costs, I guess), a lot more so than metal minis. So they could only really create figures they knew would be sold in large numbers (or make the others quite expensive). That means no more exotic stuff. Only the very basics.</blockquote>

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