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Originally Posted by ggroy  1E AD&D was a big gorilla for its time (ie. late 1970's through most of the 1980's).
Look where it is today. |
AD&D was losing market share when it was replaced with 2Ed. After a surge of sales, the game continued to lose market share to games like SJG's GURPS, Herosystems' HERO, White Wolf's WoD and Palladium's RIFTS- games that owed little or nothing to TSR's IP.
In contrast, 3.5 was still top of the market when 4Ed hit the shelves, and some of its main competitors were derived from it. Its core mechanics had highly saturated the RPG market in a way totally unlike previous editions of the game. And only GURPS can compare with how many games had D20 versions ported into the system (for good or ill)- something that never really happened with previous editions of D&D, nor 4Ed as of yet.
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