It is time to forgive WOTC and get back onboard.

[mamba]

You would need to actually read the entire sentence to understand the point:

"What I was saying is that it's weird to say it's super-popular and selling well, which means not many people have it."

yeah, apparently I did not mark the full text I wanted to. Still, my point is that if a book is selling well then obviously there are many people who 1) want it, and 2) do not yet have it, because not very many people will buy it twice. This says nothing about how many people already have it

 

[Faolyn]

@gban007, while this may be the case, the exact same thing would have happened when they switch fully to One, since there are going to be many people who won't buy something for marked as being for old 5e or new One regardless of how compatible the two editions truly end up being.

And there's likely to be an upsurge of people buying 3pp material because they want to play D&D without buying from WotC. So sales of tie-ins to various WotC adventures may go down, but sales of other 5e-compatible 3pp material are likely to stay the same or go up.

yeah, apparently I did not mark the full text I wanted to, still my point is that nobody was saying that

You literally did:

If everyone had it, I would not expect a lot of sales. It is selling great, so there are plenty people who do not have it yet. I doubt they all need a replacement copy...

 

[ECMO3]

How? In both cases, WotC doesn't get the money.

As I said, many, many do not buy 3pp tie-ins, or any 3pp material at all.

Because in one case you would have bought it.

 

[Faolyn]

Because in one case you would have bought it.

No? I had no intention of buying the Dragonlance book because I don't like Dragonlance. I haven't bought the majority of the adventures they've published either because they didn't interest me or because I wanted to play in them, not run them. I have never bought a 3pp tie-in to any official WotC material. I've never even been interested in them.

Did WotC and 3pps suffer because of that? Or do they only suffer if I would have bought it, but didn't? Do they suffer if I was going to buy something but didn't because I was broke?

Edit: for that matter, if this whole kurfluffle never happened, would they have suffered if I didn't buy Planescape because I had been burned by Spelljammer and had come to realize the only actual 5e rules I wanted were factions, which means I didn't really need to buy the book at all?

 

[mamba]

You literally did:

learn to read… I said if everyone had it I would not expect high sales currently. There are high sales, so there are a lot of people buying it, most of which do not have it yet.

Where does this say anything about not a lot of people already owning it? ‘Everyone’ is not the same as ‘a lot of people’

So no, I literally did not say that…

 

[Faolyn]

learn to read… I said if everyone had it I would not expect high sales currently. There are high sales, so there are a lot of people buying it, most of which do not have it yet.

Where does this say anything about not a lot of people already owning it? ‘Everyone’ is not the same as ‘a lot of people’

So no, I literally did not say that…

Shockingly, neither Scribe nor I said "everyone" either.

 

[mamba]

Shockingly, neither Scribe nor I said "everyone" either.

Still not getting it I see…

‘everyone’ and a ‘lot of people’ are not the same thing.

This is a contradiction: everyone owns an i-phone and everyone does not own an i-phone

This too is a contradiction: everyone owns an i-phone and a lot of people do not own an i-phone

This is not a contradiction: a lot of people own an i-phone and a lot of people do not own an i-phone

If this does not clear it up, I give up

 

[Irlo]

Because in one case you would have bought it.

I'll try once more.

There is no harm. My future potential purchases are not assets of WotC that I take away from them.

If I buy from them, WotC benefits. If I don't buy from them, for whatever reason, they do not benefit. But they are not harmed.

The end-state for WotC when I don't make a purchase doesn't change based on the reasons I have for not making a purchase.

 

[Faolyn]

Still not getting it I see…

‘everyone’ and a ‘lot of people’ are not the same thing.

This is a contradiction: everyone owns an i-phone and everyone does not own an i-phone

This too is a contradiction: everyone owns an i-phone and a lot of people do not own an i-phone

This is not a contradiction: a lot of people own an i-phone and a lot of people do not own an i-phone

If this does not clear it up, I give up

Well, since nobody said "everyone," it's clear that you don't get it.

 

[mamba]

Well, since nobody said "everyone," it's clear that you don't get it.

I said everyone, you even quoted it, claiming I said ‘a lot of people’ (and I corrected you). Yeah, so far you have not shown the least bit of comprehension, so I am out