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<blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 7734108" data-attributes="member: 6756765"><p>Things that are jumping out at me in this article...</p><p></p><p>"<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Author J.K. Rowling's tale of a young boy who would fulfill his destiny at a school for wizards sent shockwaves through the book publishing industry when it debuted.</span></span></p><p>" - Need some evidence of this statement. I suspect that when it debuted there were no lines in the stores or people waiting impatiently for the release. In fact, I suspect that when it debuted no one even knew about it.</p><p></p><p>"<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Kids started reading again, and adults read along with them.</span></span></p><p>" - Going to need evidence that children and adults no longer read books until Harry Potter debuted.</p><p></p><p>"<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The movies actually performed worse than the books, grossing $7.2 billion so far<strong>" - </strong>False statement, ignores streaming.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">They both systemize magical systems, categorize fantastical creatures, and gradually advance the characters' power throughout the series.</span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left">" - They went to school. That's a little bit different than D&D, they didn't gain levels, they passed tests and then went and took more classes.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">A Harry Potter-branded tabletop RPG would like experience a similar sales bump from the name affiliation alone.</span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left">" - Zero evidence. Pure conjecture. Just because amusement parks jumped 30% doesn't mean book sales would. The Star Wars Experience isn't going to boost Star Wars RPG sales by 30% because Disney will see more attendees.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Given the enormous amount of enthusiasm and </span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"><a href="http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Harry_Potter_fan_websites#RPG" target="_blank">homebrewed role-playing games</a><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> available on the Internet</span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left">" - Need evidence of this. The statement "enormous" is made, and so requires quantification. Because let's be honest, it's probably a very small number of people. I'm sure if we google Twilight or any other popular property we'll get the same results.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">But even if there never is an official RPG, the franchise's influence is felt in the spread of Potter fandom, who are surely part of the </span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?4393-Is-D-D-Entering-a-New-Golden-Age" target="_blank">renewed interested in D&D</a><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">.</span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left">" - So all of these people wanted to play an RPG, but could not find the 3rd edition D&D books, 4th edition D&D books, or Pathfinder books, and just suddenly discovered D&D now? Years after the last Harry Potter book and movie were released? I think we can pretty definitively say that Harry Potter had nothing to do with D&D's sales increasing, because it's going to be incredibly hard to explain why at the peak of Harry Potter's popularity no one wanted to play RPG's but now that it's waning suddenly Harry Potter fans are all buying D&D.<strong><em><u>[SUB][SUP]</u></em></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><strong><em><u>[/SUP][/SUB]</u></em></strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rygar, post: 7734108, member: 6756765"] Things that are jumping out at me in this article... "[LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]Author J.K. Rowling's tale of a young boy who would fulfill his destiny at a school for wizards sent shockwaves through the book publishing industry when it debuted.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]" - Need some evidence of this statement. I suspect that when it debuted there were no lines in the stores or people waiting impatiently for the release. In fact, I suspect that when it debuted no one even knew about it. "[LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]Kids started reading again, and adults read along with them.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]" - Going to need evidence that children and adults no longer read books until Harry Potter debuted. "[LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]The movies actually performed worse than the books, grossing $7.2 billion so far[B]" - [/B]False statement, ignores streaming. "[LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]They both systemize magical systems, categorize fantastical creatures, and gradually advance the characters' power throughout the series.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]" - They went to school. That's a little bit different than D&D, they didn't gain levels, they passed tests and then went and took more classes. "[LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]A Harry Potter-branded tabletop RPG would like experience a similar sales bump from the name affiliation alone.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]" - Zero evidence. Pure conjecture. Just because amusement parks jumped 30% doesn't mean book sales would. The Star Wars Experience isn't going to boost Star Wars RPG sales by 30% because Disney will see more attendees. "[LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]Given the enormous amount of enthusiasm and [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT][URL="http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Harry_Potter_fan_websites#RPG"]homebrewed role-playing games[/URL][LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma] available on the Internet[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]" - Need evidence of this. The statement "enormous" is made, and so requires quantification. Because let's be honest, it's probably a very small number of people. I'm sure if we google Twilight or any other popular property we'll get the same results. "[LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]But even if there never is an official RPG, the franchise's influence is felt in the spread of Potter fandom, who are surely part of the [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?4393-Is-D-D-Entering-a-New-Golden-Age"]renewed interested in D&D[/URL][LEFT][COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma].[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]" - So all of these people wanted to play an RPG, but could not find the 3rd edition D&D books, 4th edition D&D books, or Pathfinder books, and just suddenly discovered D&D now? Years after the last Harry Potter book and movie were released? I think we can pretty definitively say that Harry Potter had nothing to do with D&D's sales increasing, because it's going to be incredibly hard to explain why at the peak of Harry Potter's popularity no one wanted to play RPG's but now that it's waning suddenly Harry Potter fans are all buying D&D.[B][I][U][SUB][SUP] [/SUP][/SUB][/U][/I][/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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