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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7668292" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>This came up in another of these complaint threads.</p><p></p><p>If you go to D&D classics, you can buy at least 3 versions of GH: original boxed set, From the Ashes boxed set or late-2nd ed "The Adventure Begins". Any of these will have the maps you are looking for.</p><p></p><p>A 14-year-old 1st time GM who (for whatever reason) has heard of GH and wants to set PotA in it will probably be able to work this out. (And conversely, if s/he's never heard of GH and doesn't know about D&D Classics, why would s/he want to set PotA in the Cairn Hills?)</p><p></p><p>This makes no real sense to me - it would be like 4e fans complainging that we are being "punished" although it was the sales of 4e books and DDI subscriptions than financed the development of 5e.</p><p></p><p>WotC is a commercial publisher and manager of intellectual property. They're not a charity. They don't owe duties to anyone to publish particular books about particular things. If they think a book is a good commercial prospect, they will publish it. Otherwise they won't. It has nothing to do with "fault" or "punishment".</p><p></p><p>I really don't get this.</p><p></p><p>Between 2008 and 2011, I bought over A$1000 worth of 4e publications from WotC. I'm a RPG hobbyist, and that served me. Over the past fortnight I have accessed the <em>free</em> Rules Compendium index for 4e material on WotC's website, and have downloaded a <em>free</em> 5e PDF with material from PotA. This is service to me.</p><p></p><p>Maybe WotC is not offering for sale stuff that you want to buy. That doesn't mean it's not serving the hobby! That just means that there's stuff you want to buy that it's not offering. Buy it from someone else, then - or, if <em>no one</em> is offering it for sale, maybe that says something about it's commercial viability.</p><p></p><p>Unless you are a DDI subscriber, there is no element of "service" involved in the sale of D&D. It is a series of books - you got what you paid for when you took it home from the shop! As to the "certain level of content", unless there was a printing error in your copy, <em>the words on the pages are the content that you paid for</em>.</p><p></p><p>WotC has no duty to anyone to publish further material. It's not a charity. No one has contracted with it to do so. It has not engaged in conduct giving rise to an estoppel.</p><p></p><p>If you like the stuff they write, then of course you <em>want</em> them to keep writing new stuff for you to buy. If they choose not to, that might be a disappointment. But they are not <em>wronging</em> you. Entertainment product lines - books, comics, TV shows, movies, etc - change direction, suffer cancellation, change their release schedules, etc, all the time. That's the nature of commercial enterprise.</p><p></p><p>As [MENTION=16169]DongMaster[/MENTION] posted, Paizo is not a charity either. They published books that they believed would make them a profit - they didn't "support" their game out of a sense of duty!</p><p></p><p>If WotC take a different view about what is the best commercial strategy for D&D, that's their prerogative.</p><p></p><p>Even if the focus is on the <em>hobby</em> rather than commerce, I don't know of any evidence that Paizo's rate of publication makes PF the better game, or the more popular game, or the more played game, than D&D 5e.</p><p></p><p>WotC has already released new content (UA, PotA PDF). Maybe over the next year or two they will release <em>even more</em> new content. Do we have any evidence that purchase and/or play of 5e is slowing because of the pace of release of new content?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7668292, member: 42582"] This came up in another of these complaint threads. If you go to D&D classics, you can buy at least 3 versions of GH: original boxed set, From the Ashes boxed set or late-2nd ed "The Adventure Begins". Any of these will have the maps you are looking for. A 14-year-old 1st time GM who (for whatever reason) has heard of GH and wants to set PotA in it will probably be able to work this out. (And conversely, if s/he's never heard of GH and doesn't know about D&D Classics, why would s/he want to set PotA in the Cairn Hills?) This makes no real sense to me - it would be like 4e fans complainging that we are being "punished" although it was the sales of 4e books and DDI subscriptions than financed the development of 5e. WotC is a commercial publisher and manager of intellectual property. They're not a charity. They don't owe duties to anyone to publish particular books about particular things. If they think a book is a good commercial prospect, they will publish it. Otherwise they won't. It has nothing to do with "fault" or "punishment". I really don't get this. Between 2008 and 2011, I bought over A$1000 worth of 4e publications from WotC. I'm a RPG hobbyist, and that served me. Over the past fortnight I have accessed the [I]free[/I] Rules Compendium index for 4e material on WotC's website, and have downloaded a [I]free[/I] 5e PDF with material from PotA. This is service to me. Maybe WotC is not offering for sale stuff that you want to buy. That doesn't mean it's not serving the hobby! That just means that there's stuff you want to buy that it's not offering. Buy it from someone else, then - or, if [I]no one[/I] is offering it for sale, maybe that says something about it's commercial viability. Unless you are a DDI subscriber, there is no element of "service" involved in the sale of D&D. It is a series of books - you got what you paid for when you took it home from the shop! As to the "certain level of content", unless there was a printing error in your copy, [I]the words on the pages are the content that you paid for[/I]. WotC has no duty to anyone to publish further material. It's not a charity. No one has contracted with it to do so. It has not engaged in conduct giving rise to an estoppel. If you like the stuff they write, then of course you [I]want[/I] them to keep writing new stuff for you to buy. If they choose not to, that might be a disappointment. But they are not [I]wronging[/I] you. Entertainment product lines - books, comics, TV shows, movies, etc - change direction, suffer cancellation, change their release schedules, etc, all the time. That's the nature of commercial enterprise. As [MENTION=16169]DongMaster[/MENTION] posted, Paizo is not a charity either. They published books that they believed would make them a profit - they didn't "support" their game out of a sense of duty! If WotC take a different view about what is the best commercial strategy for D&D, that's their prerogative. Even if the focus is on the [I]hobby[/I] rather than commerce, I don't know of any evidence that Paizo's rate of publication makes PF the better game, or the more popular game, or the more played game, than D&D 5e. WotC has already released new content (UA, PotA PDF). Maybe over the next year or two they will release [I]even more[/I] new content. Do we have any evidence that purchase and/or play of 5e is slowing because of the pace of release of new content? [/QUOTE]
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