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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6228922" data-attributes="member: 6716779">They were not selling books was the problem. In 40 yeas of D&D there has never been a cap of 2 years of no new product being available for sale.That includes when TSR went under anfd was bought out by WoTC where the disruption was for 6 months or so IIRC. Sure you can buy reprints but it is not really new product. Having stated in the 4E PHB that this was the future of D&D for 10 years and having the next edition announced 3.5 years later is unprecedented in D&D history along with creating a rival that outsold you using the previous edition. With previous edition cycles there has been bad blood of course but not at this scale and not having new product for 2 years is unprecedented. They have no product to sell because they are not making any new product and the reason for that is 4E. 4E could not sustain itself and even essentials was a desperate attempt to lure players back after Mearls admitted they drove away their own player base.<a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_271/8109-Red-Box-Renaissance" target="_blank">http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_271/8109-Red-Box-Renaissance</a></blockquote>