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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jokamachi" data-source="post: 1105475" data-attributes="member: 6130">I like the titles in the core line, but as for specific Greyhawk products, it's a matter of doing something well. When a product line receives less and less money, it's doomed to failure. Sure, you can simply retort by saying that people don't like the setting, but I don't believe that's the case. Wotc does not provide enough money or attention to Greyhawk for its products to truly succeed. Consequesntly, people will look to other settings for an adequate level of support and/or development.How many people complain about the development of the Scarred Lands? What about Midnight? What about Forgotten Realms? Those are well-developed settings that have received the proper attention for them to succeed. People are happy to buy the books for those settings because they are eager to see what has been done with them. Conversely, calling Greyhawk a static world is a narrow view at best and shows a disregard for the people who love the setting and wish to see further development.As for past Greyhawk "failures," nearly all of my friends purchased A Player's Guide to Greyhawk and The Adventure Begins. They also have the box sets from the eighties and the early nineties. They don't religiously subscribe to canon (or the current time-line), but they were eager to see the development of the setting, and in most cases, they liked it.People snatch up classic Greyhawk products on eBay because they crave contiguity and they don't have access to recent products other than the LGG. Wotc should cater to its fans, it shouldn't be the other way around. Seems like people have been led to believe that's the only way it works in business, but the fact remains, a company that does not support its products is doomed to see them fail.If Wotc put the same money into Greyhawk that FR currently enjoys, there wouldn't be so many diseenting views on this issue; the message boards would not be stewing with discontent as they have been for the past three years.A lot of people were led to believe that Greyhawk would be restored to its former glory when 3e was released. Sure, it was a marketing ploy designed to catch the old-timers and draw them into the new edition, but Wotc's follow-through has been so laughable that it merits the sort of discord you are now reading. They made promises and reneged even as the ink was drying on the first release of core books. A setting without support dies. That's why Greyhawk fans need to remind Wotc that there are people who wish to see the continued growth of this classic setting. It doesn't have to be minutely detailed development, but it should be the minimal support a product like Greyhawk merits. Once again, if you love Greyhawk, make your feelings known. Take the time to write to Wotc.</blockquote>

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