D&D General D&D Beyond's Users Online Over Last Year

[mamba]

I mean it literally did. We can, quite clearly, see a massive bump.

that was not a sustained bump, that was people looking at their new PHB / DMG. If outside of looking at that (for a week or so) there is no uptick in D&D for months to several years but instead we see a continuing decline, then there was no bump - unless for you the short term of a week or two where people looked at their new book qualifies.

For me it does not, that is just a sale. The bump would have to go well into 2026 at a minimum, better yet 2 to 3 years, for me to see it as a bump. Instead we have a falling line pretty much immediately after the core books were released right until now.

You could have gotten that exact same line and usage number without releasing 5.5, it looks very much like the continuation of the line from before the new core was released, so the new core did not make a difference outside of generating sales for the core books, they did not breathe new life in the game that was maybe starting to get stale after 10 years.

Let’s see what the next 12 months show, but so far there was no change in trajectory

 

[Clint_L]

I can’t be the only one who looked at it and just thought, hey, neat, thanks to @Morrus and his friend, that’s a nice tough look at overall site usage in that span of time.

Except it’s not clear that it is. Thus the discussion. There are so many variables and missing information. So folks are wondering what to make of it.

Sans more context, all I feel comfortable saying is that there are some numbers.

 

[Autumnal]

It’s a plausible-looking curve of DDB users. I don’t think the problem is with the curve, but with people who want it to have more precision than that. It’s a bit like looking at someone’s sketched map and being unhappy it’s not up to USGS standards. It can’t bear any of the specific loads people have been trying to pile on it, but - Morris can correct me,,of course - I don’t think that’s whst it’s here for.