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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8282464" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>If their sales numbers say 2020 was a great year for D&D as a product I won't argue with that, but as a hobby I'm pretty doubtful. In my experience the pandemic killed two of my groups, although it did also expand one since once we went digital we could add a couple people who lived further away. It also at least temporarily disrupted most of my favorite D&D-centric online content. One of the game shops I used to play in went out of business. The meetup.com group through which I used to find groups became moribund. I doubt my experiences are wildly atypical.</p><p></p><p>Congrats to WotC on having a banner year. If having their lives disrupted encouraged a record number of new people to take the plunge and try the game than cool, that's a nice silver lining as well. But 2020 was also a terrible year for the hobby in other ways and labeling it "the best year ever for D&D" seems a pretty shallow reading to me.</p><p></p><p>Sorry to be super negative, but this seems like the sort of skewed reading you get of events when you get your news from the "yay everything capitalist!" magazine Forbes. Profit off the game is at a high so the game is at a high. The hobby is in a good place, these days, but that doesn't mean that we should ignore that 2020 was actually pretty terrible to it in many ways, much as the year was terrible to countless other things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8282464, member: 6988941"] If their sales numbers say 2020 was a great year for D&D as a product I won't argue with that, but as a hobby I'm pretty doubtful. In my experience the pandemic killed two of my groups, although it did also expand one since once we went digital we could add a couple people who lived further away. It also at least temporarily disrupted most of my favorite D&D-centric online content. One of the game shops I used to play in went out of business. The meetup.com group through which I used to find groups became moribund. I doubt my experiences are wildly atypical. Congrats to WotC on having a banner year. If having their lives disrupted encouraged a record number of new people to take the plunge and try the game than cool, that's a nice silver lining as well. But 2020 was also a terrible year for the hobby in other ways and labeling it "the best year ever for D&D" seems a pretty shallow reading to me. Sorry to be super negative, but this seems like the sort of skewed reading you get of events when you get your news from the "yay everything capitalist!" magazine Forbes. Profit off the game is at a high so the game is at a high. The hobby is in a good place, these days, but that doesn't mean that we should ignore that 2020 was actually pretty terrible to it in many ways, much as the year was terrible to countless other things. [/QUOTE]
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