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Originally Posted by Noumenon So what happened in the beginning of 2006 that made people stop searching for D&D? It's not "World of Warcraft", whose searches have been declining since January of 2007. "Magic the Gathering" is declining too. Was there some kind of change in the population of Google searchers, or is this a real trend? What else could we search on to see what's happening here? "Naruto"? "xkcd"? At least some things I like are still going up. |
If I had to make a guess, I'd probably point at the D&D video games. Dungeons & Dragons Online and Neverwinter Nights 2 both came out in 2006. Both fell relatively flat in the marketplace. No notable D&D video games have been announced since then.