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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6787157" data-attributes="member: 22779">I think his point is that with 5e, WotC has changed the "menu" for D&D because they are no longer offering everything under the sun, but, rather a specialised menu that appeals to the broadest spectrum of people.  Because 5e is no longer catering to the niche of the niche, they are somehow failing as a company.  The fact that the "niche of a niche" buyer is so minuscule that trying to stay in business by catering to that crowd is no longer a viable strategy doesn't seem to have any impact on that opinion.I mean, good grief, what is anyone else doing?  Why are we not seeing doom and gloom predictions about Paizo for not providing us with material outside of Golarian?  Why hasn't Kobold Press folded since the majority of its products are focused on the Midgard setting?  Vampire has been using a single setting for going on 30 years now, why hasn't it died?  Rifts?  Battletech?  Star Wars?!?We do not need generic source books.  It would be nice to have them, but, they are not necessary for the hobby.  Virtually no one does generic sourcebooks any more.  Everyone designs for a specific setting.  Yet, for some bizarre reason, when WotC does it, it's a "failure".  It utterly baffles me.THREE times now WotC has tried the TSR model of spray and pray.  THREE times.  And it has failed every single time.  Three editions in ten years.  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  Why on earth would they try a fourth time when every single time previously it has failed to pay off?</blockquote>

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