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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7528712" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>Part of the issue may be that the story books are hardcover, and hardcover has a connotation of "must buy" that goes back to 1E, when you'd only get one hardcover a year (two later on) and it felt like a Big Event (Or so I remember my 10-12-ish year old self feeling). I think WotC deliberately (and successfully) tried to recapture this feeling, if simply by virtue of relative rarity of hardcover releases.</p><p></p><p>I bought every 5E that came out, but then started tapering off, delaying purchases as I realized that I really didn't need adventure hardcovers that I wasn't going to run or mine for ideas, except as items on my shelf. Of course that is true for many of us: we (sometimes, often) buy books to have books, not to use or read them. The books I <em>haven't</em> bought are Xanathar's (too little info that I actually use), ToA (am playing it, so don't want to "cheat"), and Dragon Heist (meh). Strahd was the first that I didn't purchase on publication and wasn't planning on getting it, until everyone started raving about it and eventually I caved. </p><p></p><p>If they were coming out now, I probably wouldn't buy several previous releases that I did buy (e.g. PotA, maybe one or two others) simply because they were the New & Shiny at the time.</p><p></p><p>So maybe part of what you're talking about, which might account for <em>possible</em> sales dip in newer releases (which we don't know) and less excitement (seemingly), isn't as much saturation as people have adjusted to being more selective in their purchases, rather than gobbling up whatever comes out.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, I think a future release schedule of 4 books a year that I suggested--two story books, one rules supplement, one setting--is the Goldilocks zone, that will keep us with enough, but not too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 7528712, member: 59082"] Part of the issue may be that the story books are hardcover, and hardcover has a connotation of "must buy" that goes back to 1E, when you'd only get one hardcover a year (two later on) and it felt like a Big Event (Or so I remember my 10-12-ish year old self feeling). I think WotC deliberately (and successfully) tried to recapture this feeling, if simply by virtue of relative rarity of hardcover releases. I bought every 5E that came out, but then started tapering off, delaying purchases as I realized that I really didn't need adventure hardcovers that I wasn't going to run or mine for ideas, except as items on my shelf. Of course that is true for many of us: we (sometimes, often) buy books to have books, not to use or read them. The books I [I]haven't[/I] bought are Xanathar's (too little info that I actually use), ToA (am playing it, so don't want to "cheat"), and Dragon Heist (meh). Strahd was the first that I didn't purchase on publication and wasn't planning on getting it, until everyone started raving about it and eventually I caved. If they were coming out now, I probably wouldn't buy several previous releases that I did buy (e.g. PotA, maybe one or two others) simply because they were the New & Shiny at the time. So maybe part of what you're talking about, which might account for [I]possible[/I] sales dip in newer releases (which we don't know) and less excitement (seemingly), isn't as much saturation as people have adjusted to being more selective in their purchases, rather than gobbling up whatever comes out. Anyhow, I think a future release schedule of 4 books a year that I suggested--two story books, one rules supplement, one setting--is the Goldilocks zone, that will keep us with enough, but not too much. [/QUOTE]
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