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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 9467820" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Entire RPG market at its peak makes barely 1/100th of Xbox sales. &nbsp;You're not getting the differences in scale involved. &nbsp;BG3 made more money in a few months retail than 5E probably&nbsp; has with books in 10 years. &nbsp;Magic the gathering is basically&nbsp; selling addictive loot boxes has been since day 1. &nbsp;Way things like subscription&nbsp; services work is to nickel and dime you and milk the whales. &nbsp;Any large number like 85 million they may be including older D&amp;D as well. &nbsp;Whales apparently are around 1% of any subscription and paying users is less than 10% iirc it's closer to 5%. &nbsp;Free players exist for whales to interact with and milk the whales. Depending on the game the free players exists for the whales to prey on (example game World of Tanks). Hell our clan was exactly that to milk the game for free loot. I got the premium content and account for free.&nbsp;Some stupid amount of income comes from the whales as well its over 50% closer to 90% apparently.&nbsp;There's horror stories of whales being milked for 10's of thousands of dollars. Loot boxes prey on parts of the brain similar to gambling addiction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 9467820, member: 6716779"] Entire RPG market at its peak makes barely 1/100th of Xbox sales. You're not getting the differences in scale involved. BG3 made more money in a few months retail than 5E probably has with books in 10 years. Magic the gathering is basically selling addictive loot boxes has been since day 1. Way things like subscription services work is to nickel and dime you and milk the whales. Any large number like 85 million they may be including older D&D as well. Whales apparently are around 1% of any subscription and paying users is less than 10% iirc it's closer to 5%. Free players exist for whales to interact with and milk the whales. Depending on the game the free players exists for the whales to prey on (example game World of Tanks). Hell our clan was exactly that to milk the game for free loot. I got the premium content and account for free. Some stupid amount of income comes from the whales as well its over 50% closer to 90% apparently. There's horror stories of whales being milked for 10's of thousands of dollars. Loot boxes prey on parts of the brain similar to gambling addiction. [/QUOTE]

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