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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 7652234" data-attributes="member: 53082"><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E">"I think D&D has waited too long to release D&D next. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E">They have lost way too much of the market to just barge back into the hobby gaming market and just assume their place as if nothing ever happened."</span></p><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></span></p><p>Well first, I think there's a lot more emotion than reason in this statement. D&D is still the biggest name in the game. You may not think they deserve to be anymore, but it still carries weight with people.</p><p></p><p>Second, people who are interested have been able to play versions of it for free for over a year now. I would bet that's a pretty big number. Also, they've been servicing the retro crowd with a steady stream of reprints, no doubt gathering both cash and goodwill from that segment of the population too.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E">"When they do release their D&D Next brand, they'll have to compete with the company for which all games are compared to in Paizo and their Pathfinder brand."</span></p><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></span></p><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E">Yes they will. Right now, according to the figures on this very site, D&D is #2 in sales <em>with no current edition in print</em>! I suspect having actual new material to sell will bump that up quite a bit and displace PF for months at least. What will be interesting is where things stand a year after the D&D new-edition-release-wave is over. Familiarity vs. the new shiny plus the D&D name.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 7652234, member: 53082"] [COLOR=#3E3E3E]"I think D&D has waited too long to release D&D next. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#3E3E3E]They have lost way too much of the market to just barge back into the hobby gaming market and just assume their place as if nothing ever happened." [/COLOR] Well first, I think there's a lot more emotion than reason in this statement. D&D is still the biggest name in the game. You may not think they deserve to be anymore, but it still carries weight with people. Second, people who are interested have been able to play versions of it for free for over a year now. I would bet that's a pretty big number. Also, they've been servicing the retro crowd with a steady stream of reprints, no doubt gathering both cash and goodwill from that segment of the population too. [COLOR=#3E3E3E]"When they do release their D&D Next brand, they'll have to compete with the company for which all games are compared to in Paizo and their Pathfinder brand." Yes they will. Right now, according to the figures on this very site, D&D is #2 in sales [I]with no current edition in print[/I]! I suspect having actual new material to sell will bump that up quite a bit and displace PF for months at least. What will be interesting is where things stand a year after the D&D new-edition-release-wave is over. Familiarity vs. the new shiny plus the D&D name.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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