kayakingpoodle
Explorer
Exactly, which means maximizing purchases from the brodest customer base possible, not focusing on a single portion of that group at the expense of other parts based on title sales. Otherwise why print more than the PHB?
D&D General Why grognards still matter
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Micah Sweet
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Fair enough, and you definitely shouldn't be a jerk, but I do feel the equation changes a bit (a bit) when the restaurant you don't like is by far the most popular, and all most people ever talk about, and every other restaurant is compared to it as it sets some kind of objective standard. That's a little annoying if you still like to eat at restaurants, especially if what you do like is close enough to the popular place that conversation has a fair amount of overlap.
Still no excuse for rudeness, of course.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
What a sad thing to be all one cares about if your business is making things people use for fun.
But, there are expenses associated with that. You cannot, for example, serve both kosher meals and non-kosher ones out of the same kitchen. You can keep both groups, but you need two kitchens (technically, three, but hey), and double the costs associated with them.
And goodness help you if one group says that they are allergic to pineapple, and cannot have it in the same restaurant as they are eating...
Edit to add: It has been suggested that my reference to keeping kosher has issues, and that's fair enough. The point was that different groups of customers may have different requirements that makes a hard line between them, such that serving both groups means trying to serve a market that's actually not one market, but two.
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kayakingpoodle
Explorer
If it was just one angry customer sure, but that is not the case.Or, they can change with the times and keep most of their customersIts not on them that one angery guy walks around with a sandwich board that says, "the end is nigh" all day; every day.
Thomas Shey
Legend
I've occasionally seen people say that lack of support will destroy the hobby. Its not common but it does happen.
kayakingpoodle
Explorer
How did we get to kosher and allergies from vegan?
Thomas Shey
Legend
Perhaps if you're talking D&D specfically (though obviously your last part applies to almost all of them). There are a lot of games where a single corebook is all that's needed, and most non-corebooks are player-facing.
Thomas Shey
Legend
In some cases, because the other books help sell more PHBs. That doesn't mean it makes sense to print as many of them as PHBs.
Thomas Shey
Legend
The larger a business is, the more likely that's true, however.
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