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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1903884" data-attributes="member: 633">Well, there are some important parallels between early videogame companies and current D20 companies. Like many current D20 companies, many early videogame producers were very small operations, publishing stuff made by very few people, for which coding games was their second job. Twenty years ago, you usually could not live on videogames unless you were exceptionally successful. Many of those companies didn't have any valid business model, much like TSR, and died in a similar way when they tried to grow beyond what a disorganized management can efficiently deal with. Ultimately, the videogame business survived and thrived. Today, there is orders of magnitude more money in the videogame industry than anywhere in the past, and the games are (nostalgia and a few exceptions aside) better than ever. People can actually write games for high wages, and I know that I would kill to get such a job. If the hypothetical D20 crash will lead to a similar result in the long run, I'll call it natural selection and think it is good.</blockquote>