D&D 5E D&D pateau-ing?

[Micah Sweet]

This is based on the logic that making any profit is a win. That's not how this works. Everyone wants the highest return on investment possible. Being able to offer the best ROI is the real competition; for the investors, that means offering terms that the company will find acceptable, and for the company that means proving your business can grow so the same investors can make more when they reinvest. If someone can make 2x their initial investment with you, but 3x their initial investment with someone else, why would they bother dealing with you? Sustainable growth is important because it signals you are a safe, dependable investment with a potential for high ROI.

This is why I think publicly traded companies are a bad idea.

 

[beancounter]

It's a temporary plateau. I'm sure it will increase again.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's a temporary plateau. I'm sure it will increase again.

Why? Because everything just trends up constantly?

 

[beancounter]

Why? Because everything just trends up constantly?

Well, Google search trends aren't profits, and there doesn't have to be a strong correlation. When more interest is generated through new products and movies, etc, searches are likely to increase. These searches likely include both existing and new customers which will make assessing new growth difficult.

 

[Oofta]

This is based on the logic that making any profit is a win. That's not how this works. Everyone wants the highest return on investment possible. Being able to offer the best ROI is the real competition; for the investors, that means offering terms that the company will find acceptable, and for the company that means proving your business can grow so the same investors can make more when they reinvest. If someone can make 2x their initial investment with you, but 3x their initial investment with someone else, why would they bother dealing with you? Sustainable growth is important because it signals you are a safe, dependable investment with a potential for high ROI.

There are plenty of companies that are stable that still get plenty of investors. Plateauing sales (even if they are, we don't know and the vid ignores everything but the US) is hardly a death knell.

Growth is great, and I'm sure some of the investment will be speculation based on media other than games. But stable profits can be valuable as well.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Well, Google search trends aren't profits, and there doesn't have to be a strong correlation. When more interest is generated through new products and movies, etc, searches are likely to increase. These searches likely include both existing and new customers which will make assessing new growth difficult.

I'm just saying that if you can't judge what's going to happen with existing data, then you can't judge it either way.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There are plenty of companies that are stable that still get plenty of investors. Plateauing sales (even if they are, we don't know and the vid ignores everything but the US) is hardly a death knell.

Growth is great, and I'm sure some of the investment will be speculation based on media other than games. But stable profits can be valuable as well.

Also, people invest in something sometimes because they believe in the product or service the company provides, not just because they need to see steadily increasing profits.

 

[Oofta]

Also, people invest in something sometimes because they believe in the product or service the company provides, not just because they need to see steadily increasing profits.

If people only valued growth, most companies could not sell stock.

 

[J.Quondam]

Does this search trend really ahve anything to do with the game D&D, anyway? I mean, the letters "dnd" can mean all sorts of things!
Probably this trend graph is simply reflective of the popularity of the airport in Dundee, Scotland.

 

[Gradine]

Frankly, with all the talk about jargon going on here, we should be more worried about whether D&D is patois-ing or not.






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