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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 9367664" data-attributes="member: 3586">Have you see the state of the video game industry at the moment? Mass layoffs and studio closures.HUGE amounts of money being spent on stuff that doesn't get even close to making the money back.<a href="https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/six-year-old-video-games-study-playtime-2024-2638826/" target="_blank">Recent analysis</a> of the marketplace shows that 60% of play time went to 6+ year old games. The video game industry is in an incredibly unhealthy space.The older, traditional version relied on people moving from game to game, always purchasing new ones. When games last 10-50 hours, then you can treat them as consumables. A player plays a game, finishes it, then buys a new one. So, more individual games get sold. Most companies don't put out two games at the same time. They have a break between them.But even when a company like Capcom or Sony put out two games at the same time, they aren't the same type of game, and the markets for both are big enough to support them. But with TTRPGs? The market is tiny in comparison. And for most games apart from D&D, the margins are terrible. And for the big TTRPGs, they aren't consumables. They're the lifetime games.In theory, Wizards of the Coast could produce a second RPG, but unless the production costs were incredibly low, the return for investment wouldn't be worth it. Spending $100 to get back $101 means you would have been better than investing your money in a bank or the stock market. Spending $100 to get back $120 is worthwhile.(Sony's margins for video games are at a decade low - just 6% for Q4 2023. That means for every $100 investment, they got back $106. It had been at 12% for the previous four years. Nintendo's are at 29.25%).D&D is a lifetime game with microtransactions (supplements!) <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=":)" />Cheers!</blockquote>

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