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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8710711" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>Well...that's a hard question to answer.</p><p></p><p>The answer to a degree is...There are records being kept which can tell you how many AD&D core books have been sold. </p><p></p><p>Getting them if you are not a business associate is another matter.</p><p></p><p>If I may speak in parable for a moment. </p><p></p><p>Whether they have sold MORE than the AD&D core books is a matter of opinion (I know this will be an unpopular statement here, especially in this thread). I SUPPOSE you could take the information published in certain books that have been released on the matter as the gospel truth, but the problem with gospel truths is that there are a LOT of different religions and they don't always agree.</p><p></p><p>In that light, it depends on what you believe the numbers sold for the AD&D core books are. How solid do you want your facts to be? </p><p></p><p>ANOTHER wrench to toss into the matter, which I'm not sure that Riggs or anyone else actually addresses. This actually deals directly with what happened with the Book deal to a degree as well.</p><p></p><p>There is a DIFFERENCE between the number of books sold, and the number of books sold thru. It depends on how you look at the accounting and how you look at the numbers. Of those not sold thru, how many actually were sold and pushed out and how many stayed in the warehouse?</p><p></p><p>Were they counted on the same sheets. Which ones are being counted in the graphs? Is that information even being accounted for?</p><p></p><p>Gospel Truth has a weird thing of being interpreted differently according to different people, even when the words stay the same. And then you have the different Religions overall, which may take a similar idea, but have their own written canon for what they rely on.</p><p></p><p>It may be Riggs or someone else will be granted access to the DMsguild numbers at some point and use it for a comparison. That can be some people's gospel truth when it comes out.</p><p></p><p>I don't expect WotC or Hasbro to really touch that line of thought with a ten foot pole though (at least I wouldn't if I were them, but I'm retired overall). It's a pit of serpents that can strike with enough venom to be dangerous...in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 8710711, member: 4348"] Well...that's a hard question to answer. The answer to a degree is...There are records being kept which can tell you how many AD&D core books have been sold. Getting them if you are not a business associate is another matter. If I may speak in parable for a moment. Whether they have sold MORE than the AD&D core books is a matter of opinion (I know this will be an unpopular statement here, especially in this thread). I SUPPOSE you could take the information published in certain books that have been released on the matter as the gospel truth, but the problem with gospel truths is that there are a LOT of different religions and they don't always agree. In that light, it depends on what you believe the numbers sold for the AD&D core books are. How solid do you want your facts to be? ANOTHER wrench to toss into the matter, which I'm not sure that Riggs or anyone else actually addresses. This actually deals directly with what happened with the Book deal to a degree as well. There is a DIFFERENCE between the number of books sold, and the number of books sold thru. It depends on how you look at the accounting and how you look at the numbers. Of those not sold thru, how many actually were sold and pushed out and how many stayed in the warehouse? Were they counted on the same sheets. Which ones are being counted in the graphs? Is that information even being accounted for? Gospel Truth has a weird thing of being interpreted differently according to different people, even when the words stay the same. And then you have the different Religions overall, which may take a similar idea, but have their own written canon for what they rely on. It may be Riggs or someone else will be granted access to the DMsguild numbers at some point and use it for a comparison. That can be some people's gospel truth when it comes out. I don't expect WotC or Hasbro to really touch that line of thought with a ten foot pole though (at least I wouldn't if I were them, but I'm retired overall). It's a pit of serpents that can strike with enough venom to be dangerous...in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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