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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9541063" data-attributes="member: 5948">From what i heard on rpg.net ages ago, I was under the impression that for SJG it's sales of Munchkin that pay the bills, and the RPG game line is strictly a hobby-scale operation by comparison.&nbsp; But I don't know to what extent that's still true.Yeah, White Wolf's death was (if not entirely, then certainly majority) self-inflicted.&nbsp; While there was a lot of editorial and strategic choices that contributed to it (WoD2.0 and the OWoD metaplot-heaviness among them), at the end of the day, they decided to sell themselves to a booming video game company because they figured that as part of a larger organisation they 'd be better able to survive heavy weather, only to be all [surprised Pikachu face] when the first storm rolled in and the corporate beancounters casually threw them overboard.&nbsp; They did have long-term challenges in that their core product lines like VtM were so tightly coupled to a very specific 90s zeitgeist and even in the mid-2000s were starting to look a little dated, but that was the decision that ended them.&nbsp; Ironic given the editorial/political/economic stance of basically every single one of their products re big corporations, of course.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 9541063, member: 5948"] From what i heard on rpg.net ages ago, I was under the impression that for SJG it's sales of Munchkin that pay the bills, and the RPG game line is strictly a hobby-scale operation by comparison. But I don't know to what extent that's still true. Yeah, White Wolf's death was (if not entirely, then certainly majority) self-inflicted. While there was a lot of editorial and strategic choices that contributed to it (WoD2.0 and the OWoD metaplot-heaviness among them), at the end of the day, they decided to sell themselves to a booming video game company because they figured that as part of a larger organisation they 'd be better able to survive heavy weather, only to be all [surprised Pikachu face] when the first storm rolled in and the corporate beancounters casually threw them overboard. They did have long-term challenges in that their core product lines like VtM were so tightly coupled to a very specific 90s zeitgeist and even in the mid-2000s were starting to look a little dated, but that was the decision that ended them. Ironic given the editorial/political/economic stance of basically every single one of their products re big corporations, of course. [/QUOTE]

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