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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acid_crash" data-source="post: 3278271" data-attributes="member: 16278">I think that, although a lot of what he says has a certain kind of logic behind it, his estimation of White Wolf is probably going to be dead wrong.  I think White Wolf will probably be the one company to exceed expectations this year, and they seem to be the one that is truly trying to expand their lineup this year.I am not a market analyst or anything like that, and I could be way wrong, and it is just my opinion, but having been a gamer the last five years, and seeing what's being produced, this year won't be as doom and gloom as predicted.  My prediction is White Wolf will have a more stellar year, with BESM 3e, Scion and Monte Cooks World of Darkness all being successful (although BESM won't be a huge hit, depends).  GW will have success with Warhammer 40K Roleplaying, all three of them will be hits.  Most people will buy the new Star Wars rpg, if only to see what the changes will be and to see if it will be, indeed, a prelude to the future D&D 4e (we all know it will come out, it's just a matter of time)...if that leads to a future lineup of Star Wars books, only time will tell.  I don't know what else is coming out... more supplemental D&D stuff that will further lead to a faster increase in the desire of a new edition because most of it will probably be the same old stuff just rehashed in a new format (I am not saying that it won't be new, or innovative, but innovation isn't Hasbro's or WotC cup of tea...and what innovation they have created --- looking at Magic of Incarnum, Tome of Magic, and Psionics Handbook type stuff--- has not really been received all that well from the majority of D&D gamers).  My FLGS won't even reorder those now unless someone asks them to for a special order.  There are other new rpgs coming out, but most of those only people like us who get on the web on a daily basis, and who do research and look for them, will discover them.  Games like Wild Talents will be passed over, and other games in the same category and produced by equally small companies, won't be picked up by the majority of FLGS (if most are like mine, mine didn't even know that Wild Talents was being made, and they couldn't do an order for me so I had to do it myself).  Same for Burning Empires, etc.I don't know if anything I say has merit, these are just my opinions, and I hope that there is a booom in the future of roleplaying games that doesn't require a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons.  Seems like whenever a new edition comes out, sells are way up, then slowly decline, and as they decline, the whole market declines, until a new edition comes out.  It's unfortunate.</blockquote>

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