D&D 5E PHB is #3 right now on "Amazon's Hot New Releases"

[darjr]

A new thing that needs confirmation.

The PHB has been sold out. Distributors don't have any more. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[Sailor Moon]

I am 36 if you must know. I do know a lot of the things you posted did exist. Your perosnal experiences probably did not match that of most Americans. The main point being we are far more connected now than we were in 2000 by an order of magnitude. ANd by E-commerce I meant selling normal goods online not just selling online services and things related to websites, telecommunication, ISP's, etc. Ebay was just getting started for example IIRC, and Amazon was not making a profit in 2000. It was early days was the main point, Everquest was not the 1st MMO but it was big by 2000 standards back then.

From the sounds of it you were on the cutting edge. Do you not understand the basic concept that due to increased internet usage since 2000 especially in the explosion of new devices that one can use these days I would expect there to be way more reviews these days than even a few years ago?

I think a better indicator is the relative lack of negative reviews in regards to 5E than the numbers relative to the internet bronze age when 3.0 launched. 5E seems to have had a good launch and the 4vengers types seem to be in a small minority compared to the h4aters that bailed on 4E and left negative reviews. How we buy things and how we communicate has changed in a massive way since 2000. I used steam as an example because I would not be surprised if Amazon, Steam and I-tunes for example end up becoming bigger than brick and mortar stores for purchasing things you got from a store in 2000. That is if they are not there already. Smartphones would be another example of a way to post online and shop as well.

I would call it BS to be honest. There weren't that many people on the internet in 1982 and Danny Mills has a book which contains every user on the internet back then and I seriously doubt Mist is on it.

 

[Eejit]

A new thing that needs confirmation.

The PHB has been sold out. Distributors don't have any more. Can anyone confirm this?

Well Amazon UK finally has some back in stock only in the past few days, so they must have received a shipment fairly recently.

 

[TerraDave]

A new thing that needs confirmation.

The PHB has been sold out. Distributors don't have any more. Can anyone confirm this?

Amazon was sold out for a bit, but has it again.

I could guess that when stores ordered their MMs they also ordered more PHBs (according to the one I went to, they ordered "triple the normal amount"). Could have sold out.

You can still get it here

 

[SkidAce]

I would call it BS to be honest. There weren't that many people on the internet in 1982 and Danny Mills has a book which contains every user on the internet back then and I seriously doubt Mist is on it.

When did we skip back from talking about 2000-2001, to 1982?

 

[Iosue]

When did we skip back from talking about 2000-2001, to 1982?

Mistwell said he was on the internet in 1982.

 

[Thaumaturge]

When did we skip back from talking about 2000-2001, to 1982?

When we reached 88 MPH.

Thaumaturge.

 

[Sailor Moon]

Mistwell said he was on the internet in 1982.

Chatting up about D&D.

 

[Dimitrios]

I would call it BS to be honest. There weren't that many people on the internet in 1982 and Danny Mills has a book which contains every user on the internet back then and I seriously doubt Mist is on it.

Maybe there is some confusion between the internet vs BBS's? True, few people were on the internet in 1982, but I can remember occasionally dialing up to BBS's from 1984 onward, and I wasn't especially ahead of the curve as far as I know. I think there were definitely BBS based rpg discussions going on in the early 80s.

 

[Mistwell]

I would call it BS to be honest. There weren't that many people on the internet in 1982 and Danny Mills has a book which contains every user on the internet back then and I seriously doubt Mist is on it.

First, screw you for accusing me of being a liar rather than asking me about something you obviously don't know anything about. Second, I was not on "the internet" in 1982, I was on local BBSes back then (heck, I was a sysop back then, and also a co-sysop on a second one). Eventually those BBSes started to use things like FidoNet around 1985 or so, so anyone with any knowledge of how things ran back then knows what I meant when I said that. I said in 1991 I was on the internet.