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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8696138" data-attributes="member: 50987">The D&amp;D hobby as a whole was suffering as a whole in the 1990s.&nbsp; All sales for all products take a massive hit in the 1990s because the company itself was failing, and dragging everything down with it.&nbsp; If TS&amp;R could have held the line and managed this loss better, maybe all of these graphs for all campaign settings would be higher, and some might look more successful than others.&nbsp; But that's not what happened.I know that a lot of people want to hate Wizards of the Coast for various reasons, but for better or worse, WotC saved D&amp;D.&nbsp; It was in very real danger of fading away into obscurity in the late 90s, and they brought it back to the fore.&nbsp; I understand that this research is focused primarily on TSR, but someday I'd love to see the sales graph stretched out to year 2020.&nbsp; I'd wager that 3E outsold all of these, combined.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8696138, member: 50987"] The D&D hobby as a whole was suffering as a whole in the 1990s. All sales for all products take a massive hit in the 1990s because [I]the company itself[/I] was failing, and dragging everything down with it. If TS&R could have held the line and managed this loss better, maybe all of these graphs for all campaign settings would be higher, and some might look more successful than others. But that's not what happened. I know that a lot of people want to hate Wizards of the Coast for various reasons, but for better or worse, WotC saved D&D. It was in very real danger of fading away into obscurity in the late 90s, and they brought it back to the fore. I understand that this research is focused primarily on TSR, but someday I'd love to see the sales graph stretched out to year 2020. I'd wager that 3E outsold all of these, combined. [/QUOTE]

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