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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King of Old School" data-source="post: 2758235" data-attributes="member: 8789">My "experience" is that there are fewer companies producing less product.  FASA is gone, replaced by a company that doesn't produce RPGs but licenses its properties to a company that produces product at a fraction of its predecessor's rate.  WEG went bankrupt, was bought by a company that produced little during its tenure, and then sold to an enthusiast who is still trying to get his footing.  SJG produces less product.  Palladium is pumping out exactly the same product for exactly the same market demographic as the mid-90s.  AEG just more-or-less closed up shop on its RPG production wing.  Pinnacle produces product at a snail's pace compared to the height of Deadlands' popularity.  R. Talsorian is all but dead.  Dream Pod 9 is all but dead.There's still D&D, and there's still White Wolf.  Pretty much every other company, d20 or not, will tell you that right now is one of the toughest periods for the RPG industry.And yet, those two companies consistently are listed in the top 5 of sales by every major ranking, credible or not.  That's why we don't use anecdotal evidence...WEG went bankrupt because the owner used the company's profits to shore up his parents' faltering shoe import business, thus driving his own company into Chapter 11.  They would have subsequently lost the license in any case.I think Mike Pondsmith would have found Microsoft's job offer hard to resist even in a universe where Wizards never bought TSR.KoOS</blockquote>

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