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Ryan Dancey - D&D in a Death Spiral
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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 4746901" data-attributes="member: 2804"><p>An evergreen product is one that sells consistently year after year.</p><p></p><p>As far as the GAMA debacle, basically Ryan made a bid to take over GAMA and it looked like he would be successful but then a scandal erupted when it was revealed he had had access to and had been secretly reading a privileged GAMA e-mail list that was normally restricted to GAMA insiders which Ryan was not at the time.</p><p></p><p>I think Ryan is a smart guy and generally knows what he's talking about. He may even be right about WotC's internal numbers and conversations. But I will say this: My gaming group has been playing D&D more avidly and enthusiastically with the release of 4e than we have since we were kids playing 1e all those years ago.</p><p></p><p>3.5 basically killed our inner D&D child, and we wouldn't be gaming at all if 4e hadn't come out. The bottom line is that 4e is a fun game and we enjoy it a lot. If it dies, we don't become Paizo customers, or GR customers, or customers of any other gaming company. We just quit playing tabletop completely and all the dollars we spend on peripheral products or 3PP materials will just go to video games, or some other hobby altogether.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 4746901, member: 2804"] An evergreen product is one that sells consistently year after year. As far as the GAMA debacle, basically Ryan made a bid to take over GAMA and it looked like he would be successful but then a scandal erupted when it was revealed he had had access to and had been secretly reading a privileged GAMA e-mail list that was normally restricted to GAMA insiders which Ryan was not at the time. I think Ryan is a smart guy and generally knows what he's talking about. He may even be right about WotC's internal numbers and conversations. But I will say this: My gaming group has been playing D&D more avidly and enthusiastically with the release of 4e than we have since we were kids playing 1e all those years ago. 3.5 basically killed our inner D&D child, and we wouldn't be gaming at all if 4e hadn't come out. The bottom line is that 4e is a fun game and we enjoy it a lot. If it dies, we don't become Paizo customers, or GR customers, or customers of any other gaming company. We just quit playing tabletop completely and all the dollars we spend on peripheral products or 3PP materials will just go to video games, or some other hobby altogether. [/QUOTE]
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