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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 3834236" data-attributes="member: 31898">Manipulating the market to create a demand for what one is selling is an important part of any competently-run advertising campaign. For example, WOTC is now trashing the same 3rd edition combat system that they once passionately defended. This is to create a dissatisfaction with 3rd edition, and a demand for 4th edition. Companies don't just listen to consumers and create products based on consumer demand. Often, promotions departments are tasked with marketing products that the public may never have asked for, but the company wants to sell. Sometimes, the consumers come to believe that they always wanted the product they were manipulated into buying.A perfect real-world example is the historical destruction of the Los Angeles electric trolley system, which was bought up by National City Lines (a front for a cartel consisting of General Motors, Mack Truck, and various oil companies) for the express purpose of eliminating it and forcing LA to become a car-centered city. The people of Los Angeles didn't ask for their trolleys to be eliminated; the choice was made for them.My point is somebody is always deciding what's good for you, whether you realize it or not.</blockquote>