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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8502298" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>What I believe he said was the team was planning on a 3.5 eventually. </p><p></p><p> Sales of 3.0 was so frontloaded they hit saturation point very early and rushed 3.5 out the door earlier than planned. IIRC it was two years early. </p><p></p><p> Think what early plan was "we'll do a revision at some point mid cycle". </p><p></p><p> Then 3.5 burst the d20 bubble, underperformed, 4E rushed out the door and underperformed even worse. </p><p></p><p> There were some numbers released around a decade ago at PAX east iirc. At the time 3.5 sold around half of 3.0 and Pathfinder was around the lower part of the 3.5 estimate. </p><p></p><p> Out the gate 3E did well but sold Les than 2E PHB but 3.0 and 3.5 combined may have outsold 2E. 2E sold around half of 1E. </p><p></p><p> Golden age due to two product lines each one sold less than perhaps 5E but red box set and 1E PHB sold more than 2E, 3.0,3.5 and probably 4E+Pathfinder combined.</p><p></p><p> BECMI black box (not red) sold more copies than modern D&D editions comparable to 3.0 apparently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 8502298, member: 6716779"] What I believe he said was the team was planning on a 3.5 eventually. Sales of 3.0 was so frontloaded they hit saturation point very early and rushed 3.5 out the door earlier than planned. IIRC it was two years early. Think what early plan was "we'll do a revision at some point mid cycle". Then 3.5 burst the d20 bubble, underperformed, 4E rushed out the door and underperformed even worse. There were some numbers released around a decade ago at PAX east iirc. At the time 3.5 sold around half of 3.0 and Pathfinder was around the lower part of the 3.5 estimate. Out the gate 3E did well but sold Les than 2E PHB but 3.0 and 3.5 combined may have outsold 2E. 2E sold around half of 1E. Golden age due to two product lines each one sold less than perhaps 5E but red box set and 1E PHB sold more than 2E, 3.0,3.5 and probably 4E+Pathfinder combined. BECMI black box (not red) sold more copies than modern D&D editions comparable to 3.0 apparently. [/QUOTE]
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