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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9397512" data-attributes="member: 6801228">But those sales DO happen. That Revenue DOES come in. It may not be their primary method of spreading the game, but it does exist. You are claiming they will cut it off... for no discernible reason except that eventually, maybe that will increase profits. Somehow.Firstly, why are you assuming that they won't sell? You've continuously made it sound like WoTC will choose to stop selling them, not that they are having problems selling them. Secondly, there are 4,600 wal-marts in the US alone. That means just selling five sets, just five, of the core books to Wal-Mart to gather dust on shelves is&nbsp; 69,000 book sales. And Wal-Mart likely buys more than five per store in aggregate. And this doesn't count the FLGS at all. Or Amazon.But it does make it a lot harder. Especially since you keep arguing it will be a walled garden, meaning the ONLY place you would be able to buy them is DnD Beyond. And it is far less of an impulse buy to go to DnD Beyond to shop for DnD products than it is to go to Wal-Mart, decide to peruse the shelves for a romance novel, and see a DnD rulebook on the shelf.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9397512, member: 6801228"] But those sales DO happen. That Revenue DOES come in. It may not be their primary method of spreading the game, but it does exist. You are claiming they will cut it off... for no discernible reason except that eventually, maybe that will increase profits. Somehow. Firstly, why are you assuming that they won't sell? You've continuously made it sound like WoTC will choose to stop selling them, not that they are having problems selling them. Secondly, there are 4,600 wal-marts in the US alone. That means just selling five sets, just five, of the core books to Wal-Mart to gather dust on shelves is 69,000 book sales. And Wal-Mart likely buys more than five per store in aggregate. And this doesn't count the FLGS at all. Or Amazon. But it does make it a lot harder. Especially since you keep arguing it will be a walled garden, meaning the ONLY place you would be able to buy them is DnD Beyond. And it is far less of an impulse buy to go to DnD Beyond to shop for DnD products than it is to go to Wal-Mart, decide to peruse the shelves for a romance novel, and see a DnD rulebook on the shelf. [/QUOTE]

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