okay, 1 pathfinder did do amazing, but it never caught or over took 4e. 2 I am starting to comple resources to dispell these myths... here is what I have so far.
I still need to find teh orginal mike merls quote about each one overtaking the one before BUT I think they are only talking core books and 4e does muddy that
obody has hard oh so outside data with small windows compared to
and before you say it...5e was out this wasn't 4e propaganda
There's a page on the WotC site that lists all the current DDI subscribers. Someone on ENWorld tested it to make sure that if you unsubscribe, you're taking off the list. You are. There are ~81k current subscribers. At the *cheapest* subscription rate, that's $486,000 dollars a month. That...
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Mar 14, 2013
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There's a page on the WotC site that lists all the current DDI subscribers. Someone on ENWorld tested it to make sure that if you unsubscribe, you're taking off the list. You are.
There are ~81k current subscribers. At the
cheapest subscription rate, that's $486,000 dollars a month.
That means the DDI alone, not counting books and minis and whatnot, is generating about half a million dollars a month for D&D.
Amusing myself with old posts and new data: Dragon Magazine Subscribers Issue Date Subs Total Paid 12 9/30/77 1164 7381 22 9/26/78 1144 7859 33 10/1/79 1951 10,885 44 10/31/80 4558 20,155 55 9/30/81 11,531 48,119 67 9/30/82 19,029 60,387 91 9/12/84...
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Interesting numbers here: http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12654.html Basically, it looks like the print run for 4e was half again as much as 3.5E and it's already sold out. Back to the printers you go! Not sure how it would compare to 3E's first print run, to be honest. Edit: The sales...
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ICV2 only reflects a portion of the sales, game stores. It doesn’t look at offerings in the period it examines either and how that impacts sales rankings. Paizo had multiples releases a month and Wizards went months without new D&D product and a string of product cancellations before Pathfinder took the number 1 spot and then took up residence during the edition neutral release schedule aside from the release months. You can look at the release schedule for D&D during that time period and leading up to 5e launching to correlate with ICV2 data very easily and see how the months that WOtC released Heroes of Shadow for example corresponded to D&D being number 1 on ICV2 again and the next month it was Pathfinder with no new releases for D&D of significance. It’s like when Vampire was topping D&D during the TSR bankruptcy and TSR couldn’t get their books distributed by Random House or from the printer due to owing money. Would Vampire have been top dog in those months? It would have been pretty close but TSR was greatly weakened by poor business practices and a crumbling fanbase.
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