D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

[doctorbadwolf]

His premises are false, IMO.

2024 D&D hasn’t failed, it’s selling very very well. Every shop I know sells through the core books like it’s early 5e, Hasbro isn’t showing any signs of any kind of poor sales, and the last couple points are just silly.

2024 was made to improve the game. It wasn’t even financially needed. D&D was fine financially. They wanted to leave the game improved and they did.

And the playtest literally happened? Is he positing that it was fake or something? What a joke.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

The main reason it’s not a new edition is that the game now runs through DDB first and foremost.

I doubt it is the main reason, but it is certainly a reason and definitely something to consider in the future development of the game.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I don't dare to say the action-live movie was a failure. It helped to open some doors and audience could wellcome a second production.

I guess before a new edition they would dare to test new ideas like classes with special game mechanics.

If Hasbro wants more brand power for D&D then they need more monsters, PC species and classes (not only subclasses). Maybe they would like to create a mon subfranchise style Pokemon, Digimon, Palworld or Battlezoo (by Roll for Combat) but a videogame like this would need a lot of playtesting, even if the software was "soft" like those indies with retro look.

* Maybe we see in the future in Disney+ "Dark Sun: Aliens vs Predators". (yes, a totally fool idea)