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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9630108" data-attributes="member: 8461">I'll point out that there is evidence to the contrary, anecdotal though it might be:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Bookscan data (covering major book retailers and Amazon) saying that the 2024 PHB only sold a few thousand copies in its first week.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The new books failing to come close to Tasha's Cauldron of Everything on the USA Today bestseller list.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">D&amp;D not being mentioned in Hasbro's earnings report for 2024.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Being told that 3.6 million D&amp;D 2024 characters have been made on D&amp;D Beyond, which sounds like a lot until you remember that platform has 19 million users. (It's unclear how many of those are active users, the same way it's not clear if those 3.6 million characters were each made by different users or if some users were making multiple characters.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The new books not placing on Amazon's sales rankings (note that they're apparently classified as &quot;toys&quot; instead of &quot;books&quot; now, and I'm not sure if toys have a sales ranking the way books do).</li>
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[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9630108, member: 8461"] I'll point out that there is evidence to the contrary, anecdotal though it might be: [LIST] [*]The Bookscan data (covering major book retailers and Amazon) saying that the 2024 PHB only sold a few thousand copies in its first week. [*]The new books failing to come close to [I]Tasha's Cauldron of Everything[/I] on the USA Today bestseller list. [*]D&D not being mentioned in Hasbro's earnings report for 2024. [*]Being told that 3.6 million D&D 2024 characters have been made on D&D Beyond, which sounds like a lot until you remember that platform has 19 million users. (It's unclear how many of those are active users, the same way it's not clear if those 3.6 million characters were each made by different users or if some users were making multiple characters.) [*]The new books not placing on Amazon's sales rankings (note that they're apparently classified as "toys" instead of "books" now, and I'm not sure if toys have a sales ranking the way books do). [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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