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<blockquote data-quote="Saplatt" data-source="post: 7679732" data-attributes="member: 6775639"><p>What the article said was:</p><p></p><p><em>"Fifth edition was and is, in some ways, the people’s D&D," Perkins said. "Great time and effort and care was taken in soliciting feedback from as many D&D fans as possible. We had more than 175,000 of them who directly subscribed to the <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/8/5881805/dungeons-dragons-basic-rules-free-download" target="_blank">early fifth edition D&D content</a>, plus all the gamers in their groups. It’s conceivable, although we don’t know the exact number, that half-a-million people helped us playtest and gave feedback on the game over a two-year period.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"The game went out of its way, and we went out of our way, to bring the best of all the previous editions forward, to create a game that while harmonious, also hearkened back to things people loved from past editions. As a consequence of that diligence, we’re enjoying what I would call unprecedented success."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Perkins said that their approach to building the brand back up, after the troubles the fourth edition faced, is translating into commercial success. The proof, he says, is visible in the stellar sales of fifth edition’s physical books.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"We went out of our way to bring the best of all the previous editions forward.""It’s staggering," Perkins said. "I don’t know how many reprints we’ve done of the core rules, but at this point it’s a lot. The books have been on the New York Times bestseller lists for eight, nine, maybe ten months. We’ve garnered lots of awards. By every metric, this edition is surpassing previous editions.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"D&D the role-playing game is not going away. It is the heart and soul of your business. But how you see it, the things we create for it, will be much more calculated, because we’re not going to put effort toward a product that’s only going to sell 10,000 or even 50,000 or even 100,000 copies if we can help it.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em>So, Mr. Perkins doesn't actually say that each of the 5E books has sold in excess of 100,000. He does say, however, that the sales are "staggering" and have surpassed all previous editions "by every metric."</p><p></p><p>Edit: <em>Ninja'd by Mistwell. But I'll leave the quote here for context.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Saplatt, post: 7679732, member: 6775639"] What the article said was: [I]"Fifth edition was and is, in some ways, the people’s D&D," Perkins said. "Great time and effort and care was taken in soliciting feedback from as many D&D fans as possible. We had more than 175,000 of them who directly subscribed to the [URL="http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/8/5881805/dungeons-dragons-basic-rules-free-download"]early fifth edition D&D content[/URL], plus all the gamers in their groups. It’s conceivable, although we don’t know the exact number, that half-a-million people helped us playtest and gave feedback on the game over a two-year period. "The game went out of its way, and we went out of our way, to bring the best of all the previous editions forward, to create a game that while harmonious, also hearkened back to things people loved from past editions. As a consequence of that diligence, we’re enjoying what I would call unprecedented success." Perkins said that their approach to building the brand back up, after the troubles the fourth edition faced, is translating into commercial success. The proof, he says, is visible in the stellar sales of fifth edition’s physical books. "We went out of our way to bring the best of all the previous editions forward.""It’s staggering," Perkins said. "I don’t know how many reprints we’ve done of the core rules, but at this point it’s a lot. The books have been on the New York Times bestseller lists for eight, nine, maybe ten months. We’ve garnered lots of awards. By every metric, this edition is surpassing previous editions. "D&D the role-playing game is not going away. It is the heart and soul of your business. But how you see it, the things we create for it, will be much more calculated, because we’re not going to put effort toward a product that’s only going to sell 10,000 or even 50,000 or even 100,000 copies if we can help it. [/I]So, Mr. Perkins doesn't actually say that each of the 5E books has sold in excess of 100,000. He does say, however, that the sales are "staggering" and have surpassed all previous editions "by every metric." Edit: [I]Ninja'd by Mistwell. But I'll leave the quote here for context.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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