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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RCanine" data-source="post: 6862830" data-attributes="member: 85040">First of all, your article states that the hobbyist board games market is $125M to the RPG market's $25M -- 5x is hardly an order of magnitude.Secondly, clicking on the links in that article, you'll note that D&D is the #1 (of five) in the RPG market, 4 of the top 10 board games were published eight or more years ago! That means that the dozens of board games released each year are going to split a much smaller chunk of the admittedly larger pie.This is my point; WotC is:* Head and shoulders the largest RPG maker* The only RPG with name recognition beyond ubernerds like us* Owned by a massive company that has expertise in making digital productsThat is what defined their "unique position". The challenge they face is that they are refusing to innovate their business model. I mean come on, they sell giant paper books. Who does that? Remember when the only way to buy video games was to go to Best Buy and bring home a box? Many video games struggle today are free. Remember renting movies? Remember when a map was on paper?I don't think face-to-face gaming is going anywhere, but I do thing there's a Netflix of it bound to happen eventually, and I'd like it to be WotC. Because who else is going to do it?</blockquote>