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Why are the people who make Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons getting fired?
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They wont. MtG is only the power house it is due to cultural inertia. Better card games die in its shadow because not enough people want to learn an equivalently complex rule system.
And pathfinder, the better dnd, has been there for ages. But not even the community cash grab wotc did shook dnds foundations.