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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 5537981" data-attributes="member: 43283">One thing that makes this entire conversation difficult is "who's the target market for D&D?"See, WotC has used the number "6 million" for the number of D&D players. It's not been specified which edition that is, but WotC did use 6 million as part of its legal proceedings against the file sharing/copyright infringers for the 4E books.Now, I personally get the strong impression from both WotC and the fans of 4E that one of the large components of 4E is the internet. The tools are online only, you have to have a DDI subscription to get anything other than the most basic of "product support" (as people refer to new bits being published)... everything seems to say that the target market is online.So looking at the number of people that hang out at ENWorld and looking at WotC's strong focus on the online segment, I'm personally of the opinion that actually... the people at ENWorld might represent a minority of the rpg hobby, but they're _supposed_ to be representing a significant portion of the D&D game. And if the people of ENWorld _aren't_ representing it... there's a flaw/breakdown/problem somewhere.Either that or WotC has done a magnificent job of catering to the D&D side of things on their forums; given how they've redone them a number of times and there's a fair number of older WotC threads you can't find/get at because of the changes, I'm not 100% convinced of that.</blockquote>

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