Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
4 years of 5E on Amazon: same old same old
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7493271" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>You can understand that if you can't even remember what magazine name it had, that people might want to check it themselves to see if specific numbers you do recall are accurate, right? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I genuinely think it is. I think a smaller portion of the population play it right now than in the early 80s, but that the population has grown so much since the early 80s that even with a smaller percentage of the population playing it right now, the total number of people playing it is in fact greater than in the early 80s. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>D&D is in the most "normal" of stores on the planet, and selling extremely well there. And that store is Amazon. It's the largest company in the world, it's selling the most number of retail products in the world, and it's far far far larger than any department stores you're thinking of from the 80s and 90s. In fact it's larger than most of them combined. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The thing is we're getting some data that can in fact back it up but I'd like to know what contrary data we're trying to beat here is to begin with. But yes we are getting some better data these days from different sources, and it is starting to suggest it's bigger than it was in the 80s. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>TSR had a HUGE HUGE HUGE number of products aside from just D&D. You quoted "TSR" numbers and not "D&D" numbers. Which is one reason why I asked you to back up your claims, because I suspected you were fudging it all as "D&D" when they had sooooooo many products at that time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7493271, member: 2525"] You can understand that if you can't even remember what magazine name it had, that people might want to check it themselves to see if specific numbers you do recall are accurate, right? I genuinely think it is. I think a smaller portion of the population play it right now than in the early 80s, but that the population has grown so much since the early 80s that even with a smaller percentage of the population playing it right now, the total number of people playing it is in fact greater than in the early 80s. D&D is in the most "normal" of stores on the planet, and selling extremely well there. And that store is Amazon. It's the largest company in the world, it's selling the most number of retail products in the world, and it's far far far larger than any department stores you're thinking of from the 80s and 90s. In fact it's larger than most of them combined. The thing is we're getting some data that can in fact back it up but I'd like to know what contrary data we're trying to beat here is to begin with. But yes we are getting some better data these days from different sources, and it is starting to suggest it's bigger than it was in the 80s. TSR had a HUGE HUGE HUGE number of products aside from just D&D. You quoted "TSR" numbers and not "D&D" numbers. Which is one reason why I asked you to back up your claims, because I suspected you were fudging it all as "D&D" when they had sooooooo many products at that time. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
4 years of 5E on Amazon: same old same old
Top