Well, there's a lot of speculation on the issue right now. And there
are several plausible explainations. The prevelent was has been that
WotC is simply removing the competition so more people will go to
their game settings.
I however, still believe that there is other valuable factors. For
example, There's still the Dragonlance Animated movie in production.
And the DL books aren't doing badly. And if sovereign press and
Margaret Weis Productions did do rather well with then they know
there's still money to be made. I believe that WotC might be seeing
the possibility of using the animated movie, book line, and so forth
to re-initialize the entire brand in a broad market. The lack of
renewal means that in one year's time, WotC/hasbro could be doing
things with dragonlance.
The question is..... is this a good thing?
Weldon
On Apr 28, 5:12 pm, Matthew Amsel <matthew.am...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> Craig J. Ries wrote:
> > Bryan Knowles wrote:
>
> >> Seems like a really weak move on their part... and as a WotC
property,
> >> wasn't WotC making mony off it anyway? I'd assume that sales weren't
> >> great to not renew the license.
>
> > The argument being made was the opposite: that the DL stuff was doing
so
> > well, especially against FR and Eberron, that WotC thought it was
> > cutting into their sales.
>
> > Never mind the fact that forcing the end of DL gaming is not going to
> > turn all those sales for DL into sales for FR and Eberron.
>
> > Since none of us are WotC insiders, we cannot say for sure. But I
don't
> > put anything past cor****ate thinking.
>
> <sighs>
>
> Now if only they'd promoted the stuff properly when they were still in
> charge of it...
>
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