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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8452795" data-attributes="member: 58197">I have to admit, I don't really see the issue. Wizards and WizKids are engaged in the time-honored strategy of selling luxury versions of a product at inflated prices, while the regular version remains affordable to less-affluent or less-enthusiastic customers.It's a perfectly sensible approach. You don't want to price regular customers out of the market, but you also have a handful of customers with money to burn--you want to score some of that excess cash if you can. It's actually beneficial to regular customers, because the high profit margin on the luxury product can fund R&D or operating overhead.Heaven forbid we should develop a problem with gatekeeping in D&D. Our community has been so blessedly free of that until now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Seriously, though, the vast majority of D&D players never even know this stuff exists. On top of that, I think the cooperative nature of the game encourages more of a "show off your generosity" mentality. I have a gigantic collection of minis; I don't think anyone else in my group owns a single one. I suppose I could hoard all those minis to myself and sneer at the others for using dice and bottle caps, but that would just mean most of the minis would sit in the drawer gathering dust. Instead everyone uses my minis and I get to be the Minis Guy.</blockquote>

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