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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 5431827" data-attributes="member: 34865">No, no and nothing.In fact, if Wizards wants to be more successful they need to adopt Games Workshop's model of driving older customers away on a cyclical basis.Who do you think GW values more?  The grotty old beardo with the cheese-cloth thin, faded TACTICON '99 shirt stretched across his ample frame, who complains about the defenestration of Squats, grumbling that his 2500 point Eldar army built to the WHITE DWARF magazine specifications that were released prior to WARHAMMER:40000 2nd edition should be allowed for tournament play?  Or the hyper 12 year old with mom and dad's attention and money, a kid who'll quit when he turns fifteen and discovers girls, put his partially painted $400 army on eBay or better still in the closet and forget about it?It's the latter.  Far and away the latter.For Wizards' continued financial success*, they need churn.  They need bigtime churn.  They need to completely drop the idea of appealing to the older players.  Drop Vancian magic?  Who cares?  Make it power tiles that cost $7.99 a pack instead!  Make faction books, split 'em up, charge $19.99 each.  Make it so the person who spends more money has the better characters and games.It's not 1978 any more, it never will be again, and if WotC wants Hasbro to allow them to continue to live they need to stop even thinking like it might be.DDI, DUNGEON and DRAGON magazine online, all that is a waste of time and money.  GW has: an online store, period, fullstop.  They don't apologetically go to gamers and beg their forgiveness for stomping IP infringement into the ground publicly and bloodily.  Screw around with them and they'll make an example of whomever.People flock to GW like they're giving away blocks of ice in the Sahara.This is what WotC must do to survive.  Period.*=D&D is essentially meaningless; it has some cachet but they could call it FLEAS AND FLOUR-SACKS and as long as they "do it right", people will gladly give up their money to be treated like dogcrap to be allowed to play it.</blockquote>

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