Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Does WotC suck at selling games?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="arjomanes" data-source="post: 6385950" data-attributes="member: 94951"><p>WotC is doing a much better job selling D&D than TSR. Remember when TSR wouldn't let E.T. use the D&D branding or call the game they were playing Dungeons & Dragons? Contrast that with Big Bang Theory and Community, not to mention the clebrity Audible giveaway, the celebrity game sessions, the podcast and blogger reviews, and the news about d&d on pretty much every news site ever. Also, D&D is focused less on Gygaxian System Mastery than ever before, and they are creating good side products with the D&D brand, such as the awesome board games.</p><p></p><p>And obviously they're doing very well considering the Amazon numbers, so it's a bit much to say they suck at their jobs. </p><p></p><p>I think the Starter Set is very approachable. Yes it requires reading, or at least skimming, 30 whole pages of rules. If someone can't do that will they really want to play a tabletop game? It's not D&D's job to convince someone who won't like D&D to play the game. And the Adventurer's League is supposed to be even more approachable, and is the best way to convert Magic players who see the game being played in the stores.</p><p></p><p>Now AngryDM has a good idea: make a nice accessible tutorial on the new D&D website, but the whole negative rant buries the good idea. And who knows, maybe WotC is working on something along those lines. Considering the Monster Manual isn't even out yet, it's impossible to know what their future plans are.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Case in point: Amazon looks like it might be sold out of the Players Handbook.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arjomanes, post: 6385950, member: 94951"] WotC is doing a much better job selling D&D than TSR. Remember when TSR wouldn't let E.T. use the D&D branding or call the game they were playing Dungeons & Dragons? Contrast that with Big Bang Theory and Community, not to mention the clebrity Audible giveaway, the celebrity game sessions, the podcast and blogger reviews, and the news about d&d on pretty much every news site ever. Also, D&D is focused less on Gygaxian System Mastery than ever before, and they are creating good side products with the D&D brand, such as the awesome board games. And obviously they're doing very well considering the Amazon numbers, so it's a bit much to say they suck at their jobs. I think the Starter Set is very approachable. Yes it requires reading, or at least skimming, 30 whole pages of rules. If someone can't do that will they really want to play a tabletop game? It's not D&D's job to convince someone who won't like D&D to play the game. And the Adventurer's League is supposed to be even more approachable, and is the best way to convert Magic players who see the game being played in the stores. Now AngryDM has a good idea: make a nice accessible tutorial on the new D&D website, but the whole negative rant buries the good idea. And who knows, maybe WotC is working on something along those lines. Considering the Monster Manual isn't even out yet, it's impossible to know what their future plans are. EDIT: Case in point: Amazon looks like it might be sold out of the Players Handbook. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Does WotC suck at selling games?
Top