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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7187718" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>It was a narrative pushed at the time but since then some 2E sales numbers have come out and 2E did sell half of what 1E sold (apparently).</p><p></p><p> Half of 1E slaes figures still gets youinto 3rd place although 3.0+3.5 combined outsold it. </p><p></p><p> 3.0 sold faster in tis 1st month than 2E 1st year though. 2E was in print for 11 years, 3.0 less than 3 years. WotC got greedy and spammed out another set of core books and 5 years after that another set (they also did 3 sets of Star Wars RPG in 7 years). </p><p></p><p> TSR novels were also making more than the RPG apparently and that feeds back into TSRs high revenue figures. The bubble had burst on the 2E profitability (1/3rd of 2E lifetime sales were in 1st year). You can make money via bloat (3E and Paizo) but TSR had deeper problems like selling product at a loss and ordering 1 million sets of Dragondice (selling 70k). </p><p></p><p> Spamming material out you make less per unit than fewer products (unless that spammed product sells like gangbusters, compared to core book sales it usually doesn't). </p><p></p><p> Some of the OSR editions have adventures that have sold more than lifetime sales of D&D editions and not just the lower selling ones. Thats how the adventures don't sell myth started as TSR was not really focusing on them as they died and 2E adventures outside a few of them and Dungeon magazine were not very good and/or limited to a setting.</p><p></p><p>Some figures that are somewhat reliable gleaned from old TSR court cases. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.acaeum.com/library/printrun.html" target="_blank">https://www.acaeum.com/library/printrun.html</a></p><p></p><p> Amazon was barely a thing during 2E and it came out towards the end of TSR and missed the peak 2E years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7187718, member: 6716779"] It was a narrative pushed at the time but since then some 2E sales numbers have come out and 2E did sell half of what 1E sold (apparently). Half of 1E slaes figures still gets youinto 3rd place although 3.0+3.5 combined outsold it. 3.0 sold faster in tis 1st month than 2E 1st year though. 2E was in print for 11 years, 3.0 less than 3 years. WotC got greedy and spammed out another set of core books and 5 years after that another set (they also did 3 sets of Star Wars RPG in 7 years). TSR novels were also making more than the RPG apparently and that feeds back into TSRs high revenue figures. The bubble had burst on the 2E profitability (1/3rd of 2E lifetime sales were in 1st year). You can make money via bloat (3E and Paizo) but TSR had deeper problems like selling product at a loss and ordering 1 million sets of Dragondice (selling 70k). Spamming material out you make less per unit than fewer products (unless that spammed product sells like gangbusters, compared to core book sales it usually doesn't). Some of the OSR editions have adventures that have sold more than lifetime sales of D&D editions and not just the lower selling ones. Thats how the adventures don't sell myth started as TSR was not really focusing on them as they died and 2E adventures outside a few of them and Dungeon magazine were not very good and/or limited to a setting. Some figures that are somewhat reliable gleaned from old TSR court cases. [URL]https://www.acaeum.com/library/printrun.html[/URL] Amazon was barely a thing during 2E and it came out towards the end of TSR and missed the peak 2E years. [/QUOTE]
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