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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9751206" data-attributes="member: 99786">Everything you say is true, and actually contradicts none of what I said - yay! Everything Baldman and Pastimes done is at a tactical "on the ground" level. And if I was WotC, I would continue to be clear to those partners that the value they are delivering to their respective imprints was huge, and thank you.Whereas I'm more thinking about WotC having a brand festival, wherein many different folks do various things related to their brands - folks like Baldman, Pastimes, etc. In fact, they don't even have to do more than say "hey, Destination Concepts/Encore/ASM Global - put on something that advances our brand with our core market, as well as does outreach to these other 3 adjacent markets". They will make money. BUT - they have already proven they don't want to spend their marketing dollars in that specific way beyond the Baldman/Pastimes method of participating in other brand's events. Which is fine. Short-sighted or small-minded or quarterly-profit driven? In my opinion, yes. For a brand that depends so much on in-person interaction, one would think that would be one of their pillars to build their company on (again, that was Peter Adkison's vision). But the bean counters think "real-world is dead - long live the digital realm!".Ah well, it is what it is.</blockquote>