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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8375351" data-attributes="member: 6779310">It has been more common in the gaming industry that the change is not for the better when a company is bought. The best known exception was/is TSR being bought by WotC. But it's also quite fair to say that it was not a good move for TSR Fans of anything other than D&D, and a large number of D&D fans were left in the cold.Prior to TSR, WotC went on a buying spree... buying and then shutting down a number of companies, amongst which had been their pre-Magic competitors. Several others were their post-MTG RPG competitors. In one case, they absorbed a company they'd sold an IP to... then killed that company. In the end, they later resold the property.Most "purchase the company"  buys have been either buy out your competition or have been buy for one IP then ignore the rest. (Which is, largely, what WotC has done. TSR had a dozen settings/subsettings with product lines, and only recently has WotC decided they may as well get some of the money they're losing to "reluctant pirates" (Those who would buy if it was legally available, but aren't so principled to not acquire illegal scans when legal PDF isn't available).Also fun, I've seen some pirate prints of long OOP RPG books... some being clearly not original, a few being  forgeries. I once saw a near-perfect print of Cook Expert in a used book store... the paper weight was wrong, the blue on white maps were black on white, and if one looked carefully, the staples from the original weren't removed from the printing... and the stapling wasn't the same spots. The color cover was (with a magnifying glass) able to be seen as an inkjet run rather than an offset run. A very good inkjet... around 180-200 DPI... the gloss sheen of offset was faked with wax... parafin, I suspect.</blockquote>

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