--- woodelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1:44 -0400 5/20/03, Martin L. Shoemaker wrote: > >Frankly, I think that, for the moment, Open Gaming has been orphaned. > >They've laid off people, and they're focused on the essentials. > > You know, the real irony of this is that: > 1: i suspect that RPG sales go like book sales: increase, rather than > decrease, in a poor economy
Meh. Maybe. > 2: WotC is a bitty little part of Hasbro; it's like Congress trying > to balance the budget by cutting the NEA (<1% of total budget) > without touching Defense (~35%) That happens all the time. Depends on politics more than economics, even in a corporation. > 3: Toy sales probably follow the economy, decreasing in tough times Dunno. Probably, but not certainly. > 4: therefore, this might be the perfect time to boost the RPG > division, rather than cutting it I don't expect people who aren't in gaming to understand. ===== BORGSTROM'S LAW (of Game Design): "If you want to emphasize something, make sure everyone knows that they shouldn't have anything to do with it." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
