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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 3473290" data-attributes="member: 4275">Well everyone seems to talk about Paizo in *glowing* terms as a business. So using their numbers seems like a reasonable base. Also, those numbers are pretty in line with other numbers I've heard.I believe Dancey's number was 2-3 million. So they might have been aiming high and doubling the number of active players, but they weren't increasing it by 10. More tomorrow than today.And that will be true of EVERY tomorrow. That makes this a great long-term idea imo. Also, you show a great ignorance of those countries. China has a HUGE population of massively multiplayer online games. So obviously there's a large population of of folks not only with an internet connection, but with high-speed access.While people don't own as many computers, people oversees have these things called internet cafes. The MMO market is huge in Korea too. Now let's look at some numbers: China has 123 million internet users, India has 60 million internet users, Russia has 24 million internet users. All those numbers are from the CIA World Factbook btw. That's 200 million internet users. A lot of them, based on the popularity of online gaming in those countries, are already predisposed to liking wizard's products. Sorry, this is a great move. And it will be a better move tomorrow, and the day after that. It's an either or situation because WOTC has firmly and consistently shown that they do not want to be in the magazine business.That's why they licensed them out in the first place. Peter Adkisson has *said* as much. They he wanted to diversify Wizards, moving more heavily into stores, magazines and such. Hasbro on the other hand, wanted a nice, tight division that did ONE thing. I don't think WOTC could have handled this better.The people who were upset, nay *outraged* would have been no matter how many details were released, what was said etc. They lost a security blanket. Something that let them know, no matter what, that the brand was ok. They also don't think Wizards has the right to just cancel something, if they're not LOSING MONEY on it.It's not enough for them to just think it's going to become less viable over time, while their alternative service will become more viable.</blockquote>

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