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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7471032" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>THe numbers of the 80's are not 100% its a lot of wishful thinking and/or PR. </p><p></p><p> If they reveled some revenue figures or hard numbers one way or the other you cold do a direct comparison. Its called data and a primary source.</p><p></p><p> Peak D&D they made over 50 million adjusted for inflation, 1E and Basic sold concurrently as well and both broke a million. I don't see WoTC claiming 2 million in sales, the RPG market in total is not 50 million a year let alone by itself D&D itself. </p><p></p><p> 5E might be bigger than old D&D I can't really see how its bigger than D&D best year ever though. </p><p></p><p> We don't know what metrics WoTC is using. Total players at best is an estimate, if they are using revenue they might not be djusting for inflation, they might be using total books sold vs an older edition or they may be comparing it to WoTC only editions we just don't know. </p><p></p><p> So assuming the "D&D has had its best year ever" we don't know what metric they are using as a comparison and we don't know if that statement is actually true its pure PR and they have claimed it before with 4E apparently ((or the claim 4E presales outsold 3.5 grew into 4E outsold 3E I have never seen the statement they apparently used and 3.5 did not actually do that well either).</p><p></p><p> I don't expect them to open up there books and we may not know for another 10 or 20 years once Mearls steps down/retires/gets laid off, but even if they said something like "The 5E PHB has sold 1 million copies" (or whatever) its a ballpark figure. Or an ex staff member gives a number its something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7471032, member: 6716779"] THe numbers of the 80's are not 100% its a lot of wishful thinking and/or PR. If they reveled some revenue figures or hard numbers one way or the other you cold do a direct comparison. Its called data and a primary source. Peak D&D they made over 50 million adjusted for inflation, 1E and Basic sold concurrently as well and both broke a million. I don't see WoTC claiming 2 million in sales, the RPG market in total is not 50 million a year let alone by itself D&D itself. 5E might be bigger than old D&D I can't really see how its bigger than D&D best year ever though. We don't know what metrics WoTC is using. Total players at best is an estimate, if they are using revenue they might not be djusting for inflation, they might be using total books sold vs an older edition or they may be comparing it to WoTC only editions we just don't know. So assuming the "D&D has had its best year ever" we don't know what metric they are using as a comparison and we don't know if that statement is actually true its pure PR and they have claimed it before with 4E apparently ((or the claim 4E presales outsold 3.5 grew into 4E outsold 3E I have never seen the statement they apparently used and 3.5 did not actually do that well either). I don't expect them to open up there books and we may not know for another 10 or 20 years once Mearls steps down/retires/gets laid off, but even if they said something like "The 5E PHB has sold 1 million copies" (or whatever) its a ballpark figure. Or an ex staff member gives a number its something. [/QUOTE]
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