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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6292066" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>Some really interesting revelations from <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?354586-So-What-IS-Happening-to-Tabletop-Roleplaying-Games-Dancey-amp-Mearls-Let-You-Know!" target="_blank">this thread</a>.</p><p></p><p>One of those revelations is that WOTC does not consider "RPG Books Sold" to be the measure of success of failure for D&D Next. It sounds like they really would not care at all if Pathfinder sells more books on a monthly basis than D&D Next, as book sales are only one relatively small slice of the overall D&D pie they are looking at for success and failure.</p><p></p><p>A second interesting note is that WOTC does not consider the ICv2 numbers to be useful, as the number of sales channels they don't measure is so high as to make the number they do report not very accurate anymore. </p><p></p><p>Third, they think the book sales chart is basically controlled by splatbook sales. If you put out splatbooks, you rank high on the book sales chart, and if you don't then you don't. This has caused the sales charts to fluctuate wildly in ways they never did before.</p><p></p><p>Finally, I think this means that WOTC really doesn't plan to sell a lot of splatbooks, and they may well be looking at D&D Next as an evergreen edition rather than just the next game in the edition treadmill. If book sales just isn't as important to the overall D&D picture for them as it used to be, and the entire brand sales is what's really important for what they consider success or failure, then I can see them being fine focusing on just selling the core books and some adventures and settings at a relatively slow but steady pace for many many years. Sort of like Marvel Comics looks at their book sales as just one tiny slice of the overall Marvel brand picture, and slow but steady sales of a particular Marvel title is fine despite the massive sales those same books used to sell a decade or so ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6292066, member: 2525"] Some really interesting revelations from [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?354586-So-What-IS-Happening-to-Tabletop-Roleplaying-Games-Dancey-amp-Mearls-Let-You-Know!"]this thread[/URL]. One of those revelations is that WOTC does not consider "RPG Books Sold" to be the measure of success of failure for D&D Next. It sounds like they really would not care at all if Pathfinder sells more books on a monthly basis than D&D Next, as book sales are only one relatively small slice of the overall D&D pie they are looking at for success and failure. A second interesting note is that WOTC does not consider the ICv2 numbers to be useful, as the number of sales channels they don't measure is so high as to make the number they do report not very accurate anymore. Third, they think the book sales chart is basically controlled by splatbook sales. If you put out splatbooks, you rank high on the book sales chart, and if you don't then you don't. This has caused the sales charts to fluctuate wildly in ways they never did before. Finally, I think this means that WOTC really doesn't plan to sell a lot of splatbooks, and they may well be looking at D&D Next as an evergreen edition rather than just the next game in the edition treadmill. If book sales just isn't as important to the overall D&D picture for them as it used to be, and the entire brand sales is what's really important for what they consider success or failure, then I can see them being fine focusing on just selling the core books and some adventures and settings at a relatively slow but steady pace for many many years. Sort of like Marvel Comics looks at their book sales as just one tiny slice of the overall Marvel brand picture, and slow but steady sales of a particular Marvel title is fine despite the massive sales those same books used to sell a decade or so ago. [/QUOTE]
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