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<blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 7754281" data-attributes="member: 40359"><p>There is a lot of fuzzy math here comparing between comparing <strong>sales numbers</strong> to <strong>active players</strong> and and 3e’s sales in the <strong>first year</strong> (with sales numbers still increasing) to 5e <s>sales</s> active players <strong>after several years of growth</strong>, not to mention the words “counting every edition” are never mentioned anywhere near the 20 million active player number and so on, which shows that no one has hard numbers other than WotC. (Besides even with the 5e PHB’s great sales numbers, the number of people who bought the book is likely much smaller than the number of active players. Pretty clearly that’s been the case for every edition.)</p><p></p><p>Sure, 5e is selling great and selling better than 3e and a lot of that is from awesome growth (which is awesome!), but there’s no evidence in these numbers that players of older editions are an insignificant number of 5e players without making a lot of unfounded assumptions.</p><p></p><p>I have no idea what the number is, but from WotC’s actions, they at least seem to consider both the players of all previous editions and new to 5e players to all be worthy groups to target.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kenmarable, post: 7754281, member: 40359"] There is a lot of fuzzy math here comparing between comparing [b]sales numbers[/b] to [b]active players[/b] and and 3e’s sales in the [b]first year[/b] (with sales numbers still increasing) to 5e [s]sales[/s] active players [b]after several years of growth[/b], not to mention the words “counting every edition” are never mentioned anywhere near the 20 million active player number and so on, which shows that no one has hard numbers other than WotC. (Besides even with the 5e PHB’s great sales numbers, the number of people who bought the book is likely much smaller than the number of active players. Pretty clearly that’s been the case for every edition.) Sure, 5e is selling great and selling better than 3e and a lot of that is from awesome growth (which is awesome!), but there’s no evidence in these numbers that players of older editions are an insignificant number of 5e players without making a lot of unfounded assumptions. I have no idea what the number is, but from WotC’s actions, they at least seem to consider both the players of all previous editions and new to 5e players to all be worthy groups to target. [/QUOTE]
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