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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arashi Ravenblade" data-source="post: 2990329" data-attributes="member: 15630">This is just pure speculation but wouldnt it seem that WOTC releases products that really only the DM can use and most players will never look through, or buy?Most groups are what 3-6 players including the DM? The Dm would pick up most of the books he finds he will need and the players either barrow them or never see them. As for player products most groups only have 1 or 2 copies. My group has for example 2 copies of most of the complete books. The other players have no reason to buy the others as they can use a friends copy. So it would seem that WOTC could stop producing books that are more DM centric, and just because the book has alot of feats, or classes in it does not make it automatically player driven. I for one would consider the FR books to be DM specific with some player stuff thrown in.With groups only buying a few copies of a book at a time or copying out the pages they need, causes the product to be driven down in sales. Maybe they need to estimate how many cpoies a book could possibly sell and do a lower run on them until deman arises again.They also need to reduce costs of the book. 34 for the new MM is not worth the price. A 160 page book should be no more than 25 bucks and im being generous with that. How many people wont buy a book based on price? If a 160 page book cost 20 or 25 bucks and 50 people where willing to buy it how much would you make than say upping the price to 30 and now only 25 people are willing to buy it? And thats will the assumption that it only cost them a 4th of the cover price to make (though i really have no idea what it would really cost). But the real problem i dont think is WOTC but with Hasbro. I think Wotc would of had a little more sense in dealing with the D&D liscence had Hasbro not been involved.</blockquote>

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