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<blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 8797479" data-attributes="member: 28487"><p>This is nonsense! If poor quality product is not meeting sales targets, then more poor-quality product will not change things.</p><p></p><p>It is possible but a doomed strategy and pure speculation. </p><p></p><p>Yest they will if they have the brains of a hamster. D&D is a discretionary purchase. You do not need it to live and within D&D product lines anything outside of the core rulebooks are even more discretionary. It depends completely on goodwill and reputation to sell its products. </p><p>Now it is perfectly possible that Wizards management are doing what you are saying but they are not a movie company yet and they depend on the reputation of the game at this time. They tank that reputation at their peril.</p><p></p><p></p><p>D&D has been rethreading material since day one, how many Greyhawk releases have there been? How many threads on ENWorld have there been re-releases or possible re-releases of old material; Planescape? Dragonlance, Dark Sun?</p><p></p><p>Now you may say that the quality has been declining and I cannot argue with you because quality is perception in a product like this. I do not think it is much better nor worse. I still find things I am interested in and purchase that. So far, I have been really disappointed. </p><p>The only other metric is sales and here we have little to go on but there is evidence that revenue is rising. Since WoTC has not yet morphed into a TV-Movie company we can conclude that so far, the game is selling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UngainlyTitan, post: 8797479, member: 28487"] This is nonsense! If poor quality product is not meeting sales targets, then more poor-quality product will not change things. It is possible but a doomed strategy and pure speculation. Yest they will if they have the brains of a hamster. D&D is a discretionary purchase. You do not need it to live and within D&D product lines anything outside of the core rulebooks are even more discretionary. It depends completely on goodwill and reputation to sell its products. Now it is perfectly possible that Wizards management are doing what you are saying but they are not a movie company yet and they depend on the reputation of the game at this time. They tank that reputation at their peril. D&D has been rethreading material since day one, how many Greyhawk releases have there been? How many threads on ENWorld have there been re-releases or possible re-releases of old material; Planescape? Dragonlance, Dark Sun? Now you may say that the quality has been declining and I cannot argue with you because quality is perception in a product like this. I do not think it is much better nor worse. I still find things I am interested in and purchase that. So far, I have been really disappointed. The only other metric is sales and here we have little to go on but there is evidence that revenue is rising. Since WoTC has not yet morphed into a TV-Movie company we can conclude that so far, the game is selling. [/QUOTE]
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