Retroactive Innovation II: from the Comments

[quote]I think whats happened in the board game industry is the same thing that has happened in every industry: its now deemed unprofitable to make something of high quality that has a high degree of re-usability. The thinking is: Any thing should be real cool and amazing...for a little while. Then its time to buy the next thing. Thats how you keep the profits up.

Am I paranoid about this? Maybe, but I don't think so. I don't think there's an international conspiracy or anything. Its just more profitable to be disposable, and there is no incentive to do it another way.[/quote]