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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7494313" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Why? </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Why not Stewart instead of Mearls? Would it be more authoritative from Mearls? Does Mearls have access to information his boss does not?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Again… why?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Again, you sound incredulous. Doubtful. Your last two or three posts cite Stewart and imply that the number of players is somehow incredulous. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Which brings me back to what I asked earlier?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Are you implying Nathan Stewart is a liar? That he's purposely telling people inaccurate numbers? Or are you implying that he's incompetent, and doesn't know his job? </span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Should the D&D market be bigger than $55 million? Once again: IT IS!!!!! The ICv2 reports don't include Amazon.You know, the massive online retailer that is selling hundreds of copies of the PHB each day. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Repeating: the $55 million figure does not include online sales. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Once more for the people in the back: the $55,000,000 figure could be as much as twice as large.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Say it with me now…</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Also, keep in mind that while D&D apparently has more players than Magic the Gathering, you NEED a deck to play Magic (and you need to update that deck, and making cards for Magic is super cheap). Plus, you need to update your deck on a regular basis. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Meanwhile, only one person in every 4-6 needs the rulebooks to play D&D. If even as high as that, given there are the Basic Rules are free. AND you only need to pay once, as the book you bought in 2014 or 2015 still works. So that 12 million player number might only translate to 2 1/2 million books sold. </span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In short, you're looking at the numbers for HALF the sales that are sold to a FIFTH of the audience for a SINGLE year and then complaining that they don't match the total numbers of the audience. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: '-webkit-standard'"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">:/</span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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