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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9630146" data-attributes="member: 2205">I hear that a lot, and while I don't entirely disagree with it, at some level it feels like a handwavey "don't believe your lying eyes" excuse too. Those data points certainly aren't the whole story, but they're not cherry-picked lies and impossibilities, they're well documented facts that contribute to the story. For that matter, his list is missing two significant new points too: the firing of all of the Project Sigil people and release of the tool in an incomplete format, and now the retiring of Chris Perkins while he's still a little young to retire just a few months after he got promoted.Yeah, yeah... all of these facts are circumstantial, and there's other explanations for them that could certainly be true. But they tell a more compelling story than "the Bookscan data was actually wrong; Bookscan doesn't know what they're doing and released BS data out into the wild" That's a much more unbelievable story than any "ignore all of those other things; they don't mean anything."I say all that as someone who has no dog in this fight whatsoever. I only bought a used 5e PHB (original, not 5.5) a few months ago reluctantly because after relocating, I got invited to join an already started 5e campaign. I have no real interest in either 5e or 5.5, and I don't care in the least (except for academic curiosity) what WotC or anyone else does with the D&D brand. And many of the so-called DungeonTubers who are bearish on the 5.5 sales are explicitly not anti-WotC people. Some of them have even been accused of being shills.</blockquote>

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