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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7734009" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Another inane part of the "WotC needs to stomp down other companies so they don't become the next Paizo/Pathfinder!" idea is that in order for what happened with Paizo to happen again... WotC needs to be producing a product that a large swathe of the gamer populace doesn't actually want to play, so that someone else can step in and cater to them.</p><p></p><p>Which isn't happening. Most of the people who want to play "D&D" *are* playing it with the current edition that WotC is producing. So there's no huge group of "uncatered for" fans for some other company to produce for which would equal WotC's current level with 5E. And so long as WotC is producing 5E... no other company who ALSO produces 5E will ever reach WotC's level. Because they are at best a hanger-on to the main game already being played.</p><p></p><p>The only way another company producing 5E product could have possibly had a chance to reach WotC's level was to cater to the fans WotC wasn't... which were the fans that wanted new player options each and every week/month. Had a company done that... just flooded the market with quality 5E material in all the gaps WotC left in their schedule... <em>maybe</em> people would have latched onto them and would no longer care as much about the products WotC eventually did release every six months. But since no other company did that... there's no other "uncatered to" part of the fanbase a different company could fill a need for. And thus WotC will remain on top and have no such fears where they need to stomp down on other designers by actually thinking up new and dastardly plans like telling DriveThruRPG to tell their producers "No logos on the cover!" They have no need to waste their own time with something like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7734009, member: 7006"] Another inane part of the "WotC needs to stomp down other companies so they don't become the next Paizo/Pathfinder!" idea is that in order for what happened with Paizo to happen again... WotC needs to be producing a product that a large swathe of the gamer populace doesn't actually want to play, so that someone else can step in and cater to them. Which isn't happening. Most of the people who want to play "D&D" *are* playing it with the current edition that WotC is producing. So there's no huge group of "uncatered for" fans for some other company to produce for which would equal WotC's current level with 5E. And so long as WotC is producing 5E... no other company who ALSO produces 5E will ever reach WotC's level. Because they are at best a hanger-on to the main game already being played. The only way another company producing 5E product could have possibly had a chance to reach WotC's level was to cater to the fans WotC wasn't... which were the fans that wanted new player options each and every week/month. Had a company done that... just flooded the market with quality 5E material in all the gaps WotC left in their schedule... [I]maybe[/I] people would have latched onto them and would no longer care as much about the products WotC eventually did release every six months. But since no other company did that... there's no other "uncatered to" part of the fanbase a different company could fill a need for. And thus WotC will remain on top and have no such fears where they need to stomp down on other designers by actually thinking up new and dastardly plans like telling DriveThruRPG to tell their producers "No logos on the cover!" They have no need to waste their own time with something like that. [/QUOTE]
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