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5E's Initial Raw Sales Numbers Stronger Than 3E's!
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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7654213" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>I never claimed things like that did not exist and I did not realise America was the centre of the world my apologies. Hell I had friends using modems in 1991 to talk to each other. I'm saying the culture these days in regard to things like social media is very different now than in 2000 and you would be very disingenuous to claim other wise. The social media for example is linked to your TV and cell phones and in 2000 if you wanted to play online on a TV you were more or less limited to the Sega Dreamcast. The joke was also the only online business making money back then was porn as well.</p><p></p><p> Amazon and Ebay were in their infancy by comparison, blogs barely existed, there was no iPhone, no iPods, no twitter, facebook, steam, youtube. These forums did not exist either although the pre ENworld forums were up IIRC. Put simply I would expect online reviews now days to be a lot more common. Hell you could post a review while sitting on your toilet. It would be out right moronic to claim 5E is doing better than 3.0 due to online reviews. If that was a good metric 5E is doing better than D&D during the golden age of D&D. It is a little bit fairer to compare 5E with 4E I suppose but I don't think that would be that fair either to be honest. If you don't think 5 or 6 years makes a difference in that regard how about 1995 compared with 2001, or 1989 compared with 1995. You are using a 14 year gap, hell it would be like comparing 2E launch to 3.5 in terms of online presence. The internet existed in 1989 (in USA anyway) that is a fair comparison right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7654213, member: 6716779"] I never claimed things like that did not exist and I did not realise America was the centre of the world my apologies. Hell I had friends using modems in 1991 to talk to each other. I'm saying the culture these days in regard to things like social media is very different now than in 2000 and you would be very disingenuous to claim other wise. The social media for example is linked to your TV and cell phones and in 2000 if you wanted to play online on a TV you were more or less limited to the Sega Dreamcast. The joke was also the only online business making money back then was porn as well. Amazon and Ebay were in their infancy by comparison, blogs barely existed, there was no iPhone, no iPods, no twitter, facebook, steam, youtube. These forums did not exist either although the pre ENworld forums were up IIRC. Put simply I would expect online reviews now days to be a lot more common. Hell you could post a review while sitting on your toilet. It would be out right moronic to claim 5E is doing better than 3.0 due to online reviews. If that was a good metric 5E is doing better than D&D during the golden age of D&D. It is a little bit fairer to compare 5E with 4E I suppose but I don't think that would be that fair either to be honest. If you don't think 5 or 6 years makes a difference in that regard how about 1995 compared with 2001, or 1989 compared with 1995. You are using a 14 year gap, hell it would be like comparing 2E launch to 3.5 in terms of online presence. The internet existed in 1989 (in USA anyway) that is a fair comparison right? [/QUOTE]
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