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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 4746726" data-attributes="member: 20239"><p>I had a thought this morning about this very thing. What if that's not true? What if (and this is pure unsubstantiated conjecture, I know), but what if against all logic and reason WotC actually sees a spike in sales after these PR fiascos just because of the extra publicity they generate?</p><p></p><p>It seems to me that, over the course of its lifespan, WotC has had experience with a not-insubstantial number of cases where they've horked off their fans (either D&D, Magic, DDM, etc.). If such instances really hurt sales, any halfway smart business organization would clean up their act. If anything, WotC seems to be getting worse and worse at PR. It seems like we've got a new nerd-rage inspiring move coming out of WotC every few months for the last year or so.</p><p></p><p>So what if these PR gaffs are intentional? What if it's true that any publicity is good publicity and (again, despite all common sense and logic), royally POing a bunch of D&D fans on the internet actually pushes the sales figures of D&D books a few percentage points higher for a couple of weeks?</p><p></p><p>I'm not a betting man, but if I were I might put money on WotC doing something else to generate a firestorm of nerdrage before the end of the summer (for example, making a sudden and unannounced revision to the GSL that's not very advantageous to 3PPs), maybe right around the time the next major 4e core book comes out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 4746726, member: 20239"] I had a thought this morning about this very thing. What if that's not true? What if (and this is pure unsubstantiated conjecture, I know), but what if against all logic and reason WotC actually sees a spike in sales after these PR fiascos just because of the extra publicity they generate? It seems to me that, over the course of its lifespan, WotC has had experience with a not-insubstantial number of cases where they've horked off their fans (either D&D, Magic, DDM, etc.). If such instances really hurt sales, any halfway smart business organization would clean up their act. If anything, WotC seems to be getting worse and worse at PR. It seems like we've got a new nerd-rage inspiring move coming out of WotC every few months for the last year or so. So what if these PR gaffs are intentional? What if it's true that any publicity is good publicity and (again, despite all common sense and logic), royally POing a bunch of D&D fans on the internet actually pushes the sales figures of D&D books a few percentage points higher for a couple of weeks? I'm not a betting man, but if I were I might put money on WotC doing something else to generate a firestorm of nerdrage before the end of the summer (for example, making a sudden and unannounced revision to the GSL that's not very advantageous to 3PPs), maybe right around the time the next major 4e core book comes out. [/QUOTE]
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