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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5428233" data-attributes="member: 82106">Desperation or just being proactive? The thing is NO RPG is ever just 'thriving'. For all its successes TSR destructed itself with great thoroughness. What you did last quarter is history, what you'll do next quarter is a hope, what you do THIS quarter pays your bills. You could sell 500 great products one year and if you don't have another lineup for this year, and designed to meet this years customer's needs, it means squat. What you find is that there's always a scrambling, always a struggle. You can never rest on your accomplishments, and you can never assume that doing more of the same thing will produce the same results it did before.It seems likely from what we see that there are concerns. The RPG market is changing and evolving quickly, like everything in modern society. Every quarter is another bold experiment or another retrenchment. I don't think that's likely to change anytime soon. D&amp;D is caught in the very midst of the whole digital revolution. One can say that this or that other company is doing better or worse, but nobody actually has even the faintest idea if that is true or not. 4e could long outlast PF. It could be the other way around. Personally I'd bet with the larger and more heavily resource equipped organization to make it. Paizo has to hope their model continues to work, WotC doesn't have to hope, they can afford to make changes in direction and engage in experiments. They can also survive a lean quarter or two. The smaller company? Not so much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5428233, member: 82106"] Desperation or just being proactive? The thing is NO RPG is ever just 'thriving'. For all its successes TSR destructed itself with great thoroughness. What you did last quarter is history, what you'll do next quarter is a hope, what you do THIS quarter pays your bills. You could sell 500 great products one year and if you don't have another lineup for this year, and designed to meet this years customer's needs, it means squat. What you find is that there's always a scrambling, always a struggle. You can never rest on your accomplishments, and you can never assume that doing more of the same thing will produce the same results it did before. It seems likely from what we see that there are concerns. The RPG market is changing and evolving quickly, like everything in modern society. Every quarter is another bold experiment or another retrenchment. I don't think that's likely to change anytime soon. D&D is caught in the very midst of the whole digital revolution. One can say that this or that other company is doing better or worse, but nobody actually has even the faintest idea if that is true or not. 4e could long outlast PF. It could be the other way around. Personally I'd bet with the larger and more heavily resource equipped organization to make it. Paizo has to hope their model continues to work, WotC doesn't have to hope, they can afford to make changes in direction and engage in experiments. They can also survive a lean quarter or two. The smaller company? Not so much. [/QUOTE]

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