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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ultimatecalibur" data-source="post: 5710242" data-attributes="member: 59539">This is a bit of a misconstruction of the events that led up to the purchase of TSR. No one outside of TSR really knew at the time how bad off TSR really was. The original reason that someone from WotC went to the TSR offices was to talk to them about the possibility of TSR buying WotC out. It was only after the WotC rep found out about the real situation that WotC proposed to buyout TSR.This was 15 years ago. The internet was not nearly as ubiquitous as it is today, and not even 1% of the modern resources existed back then. The influx of new and returning players from 3e had not happened yet, which you will find is the source of the majority of modern AD&D players.Product lines die when no further products of that line are produced. For example, while DeLorean DMC-12s can occasionally be seen, replacement parts purchased and "new" ones built from existing parts, the product line has been effectively dead since the DeLorean Motor Company went bankrupt in 1982. While the D&D RPG may or may not have gone extinct if WotC had not purchased TSR, one of the reasons it did not go extinct is because WotC purchased TSR. While many could have prevented D&D from going extinct, that does not change that WotC did prevent D&D from going extinct. The question you have to ask here is "Did WotC buy TSR because it was a dying competitor or because it had one of the top brand names in RPGs?"</blockquote>

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