Right, so they compared 4e favorably to 3e and went on to say sales dropped off "as they they did for all prior editions" which I assume includes 3e. That's still a favorable comparison!
Honestly I 100% get that. Vibes at the table is a big thing. That's why some people love dice pool systems and some people hate them.
I thought it was recently revealed that the WotC brass were looking at games like WoW specifically and asking the designers to make something designed to draw in those players, because they wanted a slice of that pie?
yeah. That's the definition of "influence." WoW had eaten many tabletop game groups over the previous few years, because folks could play together more easily and still engage in roleplaying and comraderie (not to mention playing remotely).
and it is still conveniently vague. 4e sold less than 3e (Ben Riggs), it had good initial sales but then probably dropped off faster than any other edition (given that it sold less despite stronger initial sales). Them all declining is trying to hide that.
Did 4e sell pdfs of their cards? I don't recall any, and they're certainly not doing that with the cards produced for 5e.
Wasn't 3E the edition with the shortest life span? 3.5 came out very quickly, IIRC.
Even better, the official free character builder app let you print PDF files of your abilities for free.
so did Essentials, if you want to treat that as 4e but 3.5 as separate then you might be right, but that feels like trying to force the facts to fit the argument
