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<blockquote data-quote="Fifth Element" data-source="post: 5532997" data-attributes="member: 48135">If they spent $25 million to acquire TSR, we're well beyond talking about people creating income from their passions. That is, if they had the ability to invest $25 million, we're not talking about things in the same universe.We have no way of knowing if this is true, and considering the business they were already in it might well be false.If you're the director of a company with hundreds of employees, you don't have the freedom to squander $25 million on satisfying your passions. If the business case doesn't make sense (ie, sufficient future profits to justify the investment) then you don't do it. Peter Adkinson is clearly not a bad businessman.There is nothing inherently wrong or dirty with the pursuit of profit. My initial response was to Hasbro being painted as filthy money-grubbers, while previously the game had been published for the sake of the game. That's naive.For instance, here's a quote from Mr. Adkinson about publishing 3E (from the &quot;30 Years of Adventure&quot; book): &quot;Obviously, we [Wizards] had a strong economic incentive for publishing a&nbsp; new edition; sales for any product line tend to spike when a new&nbsp; edition comes out, assuming the new edition is an improvement over the&nbsp; first. And given the change in ownership we thought this would be an&nbsp; excellent opportunity for WotC to 'put its stamp on D&amp;D.'&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fifth Element, post: 5532997, member: 48135"] If they spent $25 million to acquire TSR, we're well beyond talking about people creating income from their passions. That is, if they had the ability to invest $25 million, we're not talking about things in the same universe. We have no way of knowing if this is true, and considering the business they were already in it might well be false. If you're the director of a company with hundreds of employees, you don't have the freedom to squander $25 million on satisfying your passions. If the business case doesn't make sense (ie, sufficient future profits to justify the investment) then you don't do it. Peter Adkinson is clearly not a bad businessman. There is nothing inherently wrong or dirty with the pursuit of profit. My initial response was to Hasbro being painted as filthy money-grubbers, while previously the game had been published for the sake of the game. That's naive. For instance, here's a quote from Mr. Adkinson about publishing 3E (from the "30 Years of Adventure" book): [I]"Obviously, we [Wizards] had a strong economic incentive for publishing a new edition; sales for any product line tend to spike when a new edition comes out, assuming the new edition is an improvement over the first. And given the change in ownership we thought this would be an excellent opportunity for WotC to 'put its stamp on D&D.'"[/I] [/QUOTE]

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