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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 4538755" data-attributes="member: 10095">WotC had nothing to do with the D&D movie. They didn't sell the rights to Courtney Solomon, TSR did. They didn't produce (aka fund) the movie in any way, shape, or form. Blaming WotC for the movie shows that you know nothing about the circumstances that brought the movie to production.Wait, so are you saying that in times of greater economic stability (early 2000s, 1990s, etc), people are less likely to buy things they won't use, but in times of economic decline (present day), they are more likely to buy things they won't use? So, when there's more money, people are penny pinchers, but when money is tight, people are frivolous with it? Yeah, that makes sense in no way.Nor does your claim that people always played things in the past if they bought them, but they don't now, especially since you have zero evidence.We can't get solid real numbers because TSR had incredibly shady record keeping for a long time, so those numbers you talk about do not exist. All we have is some anecdotal comments from Gygax a few years back (though his direct experience with D&D sales ends in the mid 1980s) about AD&D kicking ass back in the day, and we also have Ryan Dancey's much more recent comments about a warehouse full of unsold 1e stock valued at $0.</blockquote>