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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kromanjon" data-source="post: 9626019" data-attributes="member: 20680">Does it?Most thermostats never broke down. The fact that some did doesn't prove anything. A lot of circuit boards fail as well, but not all of course. They are however more sensitive and when they break they cause more trouble than some ice build up.Yeah. This was actually never a comparison with ttrpgs. This was just a rebutal when someone claimed that no one ever makes something new willfully worse. I could have use mobile phones as a example but refrigerators was closer in my mind as I have worked with them and I know for a fact this to be true. They use cheaper components with a higher chance of failure and shorter life spans to sell more products.An interesting thought exercise would be to ponder how one could translate this process to ttrpgs. Many have stated again and again that WotC is a corporation and that it's going to corporate. So if they want to keep us buying more and more books at a faster rate, and they want to spend less and less money doing it, how will they do this? What is the ttrpg version of planned obsolescence?</blockquote>