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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6222613" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>Players books still sell but you have to make an edition that people want to buy. 3.5 apparently was worth 25-30 million per year while Paizo's best year was 11.2 million in 2012. Paizo outsold PF using adventures and we can speculate why but the bar was fairly low it seems ie 4th ed did not do very well after the initial shiny coat feeling wore off.</p><p></p><p> I suspect a lot of DMs buy players option books for their players to use. I know I do. Would not surprise me if 80-90% of D&D's sales come from 10% of the player base. The peak of D&Ds golden age (1983) TSR made $20 million (48 million adjusted for inflation) with one hard cover a year. That is about 4 times the size of Paizo and more than Paizo got in 2009-2012 combined. Keep on the Borderlands sold 1-1.5 million copies or something crazy like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 6222613, member: 6716779"] Players books still sell but you have to make an edition that people want to buy. 3.5 apparently was worth 25-30 million per year while Paizo's best year was 11.2 million in 2012. Paizo outsold PF using adventures and we can speculate why but the bar was fairly low it seems ie 4th ed did not do very well after the initial shiny coat feeling wore off. I suspect a lot of DMs buy players option books for their players to use. I know I do. Would not surprise me if 80-90% of D&D's sales come from 10% of the player base. The peak of D&Ds golden age (1983) TSR made $20 million (48 million adjusted for inflation) with one hard cover a year. That is about 4 times the size of Paizo and more than Paizo got in 2009-2012 combined. Keep on the Borderlands sold 1-1.5 million copies or something crazy like that. [/QUOTE]
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