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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bards R Us" data-source="post: 1557418" data-attributes="member: 15466">Actually only video (console) gaming is the only one entertainment market (ie movies, music, books, etc) thats actually doing "OK" at the moment; computer (PC) gaming, however, has been most definitely in serious trouble for a long time now, with lots of evidence to back it up.  RPGs are in a down period after the big boom of 2000 - 2003.A little excerpt from none other than Kevin Siembieda (of Palladium Books fame) responding to critics on the RPG.net forums (yeah, THAT PLACE):<a href="http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?threadid=119629&perpage=10&pagenumber=9" target="_blank">http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?threadid=119629&perpage=10&pagenumber=9</a>"Fan base attrition. Bill keeps bringing up fan base attrition and things that I do or don’t do that must be contributing to it or that I’m upset about fan base attrition. Fact is the entire RPG industry has been hurting for the last few years. Fact is, Palladium Books remains one of the top five game manufacturers, overall. Fact is, most other entertainment markets are also losing viewers/consumers, and that includes network television, the music industry, book publishers and computer games (and no of them know why). Fact is, drops in markets are cyclical. Comic books have been declared dead at least three times that I know of. Fact is, Bill hasn’t been involved with Palladium for a couple of years and doesn’t know anything about our sales or what’s happening at Palladium. His knowledge of sales was limited to begin with. I happen to believe paper role-playing games will rebound and be as big or bigger than ever. Unfortunately, I fear a number of companies may go out of business before that happens. "</blockquote>

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