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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5605078" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, ups and downs don't always match the general economy, but it is hard to imagine there's no connection between the two. I know when my business is running tight my gaming budget inevitably has to shrink. I expect with the degree people are hurting right now toys and games are not exactly the highest thing on people's lists. Hasbro in general is certainly tight. One could as easily interpret things as "D&D is doing fine, it will be OK if we cut back a bit there, that product line is doing OK and doesn't need much investment, lets cut them back a bit and put that cash into G.I. Joe, he's hurting!" I mean, we just don't know squat really. We might conjecture with some degree of business sense that Hasbro figures the ROI for a guy working on D&D is less than that for someone doing something else. That seems like a sensible conclusion, but it could be only part or none of the real story.Of course we also don't know relative to other products in the same market where D&D is. That would be a more useful thing to know, but despite all the speculation that goes on we just don't know. It is said that PF is doing as well as 4e or at least competitively but both games could be doing downright terribly too.</blockquote>