WOTC/HASBRO
If you “hate” a company, why do you have one on that shelf? I think they are making money by (what editors call) edition churn. They keep many of us old guys, but honestly, grognards write their own material.

> Before entering college, my parents showed me a trick. I needed a chemistry book. We went to the campus bookstore where we found “used” stickers on books. Dad said, read the edition number. Twelfth Ed. Come over here to this year’s book. Thirteenth Edition. Thirteen editions in thirteen years means nothing has changed in the material. Just newer pictures. Just editing. <

Price: new 13th $68, used 12th $24

.TSR, static rules, different settings, over-produced, under-funded

Hasbro, rewrite by committee* every few years, re-edition

* anime heroic last edition, this new one is LGB friendly