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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 7657717" data-attributes="member: 6701829">That's actually a perfect analogy. I'm going to make it into a Chinese buffet because it's nearly lunchtime here and I'm jonesing for some Chinese food.Let's say there's a Chinese Buffet, with plenty of options - shrimp fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, egg drop soup, orange chicken, barbecue pork, Mongolian beef, moo goo gai pan, what have you. When you walk down the buffet, the first three options are the three most popular, the ones everyone buys. Let's say, the shrimp fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, and egg drop soup - the core three entrees in any Chinese buffet experience. After those three, the amount served drops off dramatically - most people's plates are pretty full at this point so they're only going to get a few more items. Sure, there are a few gluttons who REALLY love themselves some Chinese food and will go down the line and pile everything onto multiple plates, and as a small business owner you're grateful for their patronage, but putting out a lot of food that's likely going to just go to waste costs you money. Sure, some regular folks are going to pick the Mongolian beef for lunch this week, but if not enough of your customer base likes it you're better off not even offering it - fuel for keeping all those buffet stations warm is expensive, not to mention all the chefs you have to keep on the payroll to keep churning out all that food.Rather than selling 30 less-popular Chinese food dishes, WotC is focusing on the 3 that everybody always orders, and adding other options very slowly.</blockquote>

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