D&D General Richard Whitters poll on twitter, "Will you be buying the newest edition of D&D?"

[UngeheuerLich]

Because you just can't imagine someone being done with WotC/D&D?

Hard to imagine, because many of them still visit d&d 2024 forums. I don't know why if they are totally done?

 

[KYRON45]

Because you just can't imagine someone being done with WotC/D&D?

Because they will still want to be thought of as experts when they rail against the things they "hate".
Buy or don't buy what you wan't. Life will go on.

 

[Reynard]

it would not need to maintain growth to beat 2014, esp. with a decent adoption rate, it ‘just’ would need to keep its current sales for another four or five years or so (depending on the adoption rate)

As to growth, I don’t think it grew last year, but it did not go down much either

If D&D were owned by a private company, that would probably be okay. But the game is owned by a publicly traded, multi-billion dollar corporation. "Holding steady" is not allowed.

 

[Desdichado]

Oh, they're done playing D&D. But a lot of people never walk away from grousing about it on the internet.

Like, there are still folks who argue over 4e as if it wasn't gone for over a decade now.

Ha! That's a fair point. I haven't been a customer or player of D&D since before 4e, unless you consider D&D to be a generic term for D&D-like fantasy roleplaying like Kleenex for facial tissue, or something. I still have an academic curiosity in the performance of the brand, I guess, which kinda translates into grousing about it on the internet.

 

[mamba]

I think that would be counterproductive and if they even tried that I'd be done with D&D for good, at least any WotC incarnation. I'm willing to give this new revision a try but anything other than a completely new ruleset with the 6E moniker isn't worth the money or time to me.

I am just not sure WotC is interested in abandoning compatibility and creating something really new.

For that to happen 5e sales would need to truly tank, just like every other time they released a new edition. If they were to release a true 6e say 8 years from now, 5e sales would have to have fallen off a cliff in the next 5 years, and I am not expecting that

 

[Aldarc]

Because they will still want to be thought of as experts when they rail against the things they "hate".
Buy or don't buy what you wan't. Life will go on.

I don't really see the need to cast such empty aspersions at the various nameless people who choose to voice their opinions on the current iteration of D&D, as there may be a myriad of reasons why they choose to do so.

 

[mamba]

If D&D were owned by a private company, that would probably be okay. But the game is owned by a publicly traded, multi-billion dollar corporation. "Holding steady" is not allowed.

they had a pandemic peak and permanent growth is not something that is possible. I believe they are quite happy to maintain their current sales and look for more money elsewhere rather than in increasing D&D book sales.

 

[KYRON45]

I don't really see the need to cast such empty aspersions at the various nameless people who choose to voice their opinions on the current iteration of D&D, as there may be a myriad of reasons why they choose to do so.

You are probably correct. I on the other hand don't see the need for people to come to a brand specific conversation space to tell me how much they don't like the brand. So they make their comments and I in turn make mine....this is the nature of conversation.

 

[Parmandur]

I have a feeling too that this revision will not live up to the success of the 2014 5E and we'll get 6E sooner than later...I hope

I hope there is never a "6E" as such. An evergreen game is better for the hobby, and 5E is well setup to be that fir decades

 

[Umbran]

I don't really see the need to cast such empty aspersions at the various nameless people who choose to voice their opinions on the current iteration of D&D, as there may be a myriad of reasons why they choose to do so.

Depends on the where and how. A top level post on twitter is one thing. Coming into a thread here to take a dump on a game folks love is another. Your reasons probably don't justify being a direct jerk to folks trying to enjoy their own hobby.