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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 5371790" data-attributes="member: 66434">Yay! We have a winner. The problem here isn't with rpg products at all. The problem lies in trying to convert an enjoyable niche hobby into some mass consumable revenue stream. &nbsp;Companies exist to make money. A larger company means that more profit is needed to bother with a particular product line. The profit motive makes good economic sense but isn't always what is best for the hobby.&nbsp;The root of the problem then is a sense of entitlement from the industry that the hobby should produce X amounts of revenue. When the hobby does not produce the required revenue to satisfy the demands of the industry then hobby offerings are changed to satisfy revenue demands. &nbsp;This isn't to say that change within the hobby is never a good thing but that change shouldn't be driven largely by industry revenue demands. &nbsp;Once that happens then what you get is the industry deciding the nature of the hobby activity instead of the hobbyists.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 5371790, member: 66434"] Yay! We have a winner. The problem here isn't with rpg products at all. The problem lies in trying to convert an enjoyable niche hobby into some mass consumable revenue stream. Companies exist to make money. A larger company means that more profit is needed to bother with a particular product line. The profit motive makes good economic sense but isn't always what is best for the hobby. The root of the problem then is a sense of entitlement from the industry that the hobby should produce X amounts of revenue. When the hobby does not produce the required revenue to satisfy the demands of the industry then hobby offerings are changed to satisfy revenue demands. This isn't to say that change within the hobby is never a good thing but that change shouldn't be driven largely by industry revenue demands. Once that happens then what you get is the industry deciding the nature of the hobby activity instead of the hobbyists. [/QUOTE]

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