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What stops WotC from *also* selling 3.5?
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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5692205" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>As I said on the other thread, this would probably mean that instead of having one successful product (4e), WotC would instead have two failed ones (3e and 4e) - although the total number of sales would likely go up, each individual product would sell fewer units, and I suspect the D&D books are now selling <em>just barely</em> well enough to be worth bothering with.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I suspect the cost is higher than you think. Also, with the exception of the core rules, all of 3e appears to be available cheaply and easily on eBay. So, yeah, I think the secondary market can handle it.</p><p></p><p>(I do wish they'd reprint the 3.5e PHB, but I don't see it happening.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No idea.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Depends what they think they can do with them. I guess there's room for an expansion for each of them, but there's got to be a limit to how many of these they can produce. And I'm not sure how much staying power the games have - sure, they're fun to play once or twice, but how often will you come back to them?</p><p></p><p>If WotC decide to shelve D&D-RPG, I would be at all surprised to see them do a "definitive D&D" that they market as 5e but which actually resembles the board games a lot more than is currently the case. They could sell it as a single big boxed set, possibly with one or two expansions, but made accessible to the casual gamer. Sort of one last attempt to milk something from the game before it goes in the vault.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5692205, member: 22424"] As I said on the other thread, this would probably mean that instead of having one successful product (4e), WotC would instead have two failed ones (3e and 4e) - although the total number of sales would likely go up, each individual product would sell fewer units, and I suspect the D&D books are now selling [i]just barely[/i] well enough to be worth bothering with. I suspect the cost is higher than you think. Also, with the exception of the core rules, all of 3e appears to be available cheaply and easily on eBay. So, yeah, I think the secondary market can handle it. (I do wish they'd reprint the 3.5e PHB, but I don't see it happening.) No idea. Depends what they think they can do with them. I guess there's room for an expansion for each of them, but there's got to be a limit to how many of these they can produce. And I'm not sure how much staying power the games have - sure, they're fun to play once or twice, but how often will you come back to them? If WotC decide to shelve D&D-RPG, I would be at all surprised to see them do a "definitive D&D" that they market as 5e but which actually resembles the board games a lot more than is currently the case. They could sell it as a single big boxed set, possibly with one or two expansions, but made accessible to the casual gamer. Sort of one last attempt to milk something from the game before it goes in the vault. [/QUOTE]
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