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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 7754224" data-attributes="member: 6756765">As Magic the Gathering, at last report, has been bleeding players at a pretty high rate, I don't think it's much of a goldmine.  We don't know if it's flatlined yet or if it's worsening, but either way drops of as much as 30%-35% year over year is a really good sign that you shouldn't be using it as a basis for other products.  Especially when you've been ignoring really popular settings in those other products for the past 5 years.  Nevermind the obvious horrible business decision of using a failing product to create products in another line which are pretty much guaranteed to fail too, instead of making something that would've sold.Honestly, I *strongly* doubt we'll see Innistrad mixed with Ravenloft.  I suspect Magic the Gathering is tipping off a cliff, if it hasn't already, and WOTC will no longer have any major money generator.  If we're lucky, D&D will be sold to Paizo.  Most likely, Hasbro will put it in a valut and try to use it as a vehicle for TV shows or movies.If Magic's continuing to lose players, and it's doing it in double digits, the clock is ticking and there's *very* little time on it.</blockquote>