D&D 5E DMG, PHB, and MM still in the Amazon top 100 sellers

[Mark CMG]

A fraction of any of these groups decides to check out the 5E PHB, and thats hundreds of thousands of additional sales.

Let's hope for that!

 

[TerraDave]

I would guess that the new #1 has something to do with Valentine's coming up

Yep. Its back. The normal order is restored.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/16211/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_3

PHB is actually back up to 69 (at the time of this posting) and DMG and MM are in the top 200.

 

[ren1999]

Just think about this. Just a few people at Hasbro and WOTC are earning all the profits from these book sales. Meanwhile the employees who actually worked on the game are being let go and the fans who play-tested the game are actually the ones paying all the profits!

 

[Parmandur]

Just think about this. Just a few people at Hasbro and WOTC are earning all the profits from these book sales. Meanwhile the employees who actually worked on the game are being let go and the fans who play-tested the game are actually the ones paying all the profits!

Off-topic much? So what? The fans usually pay the profits, and while it is not fun that people lost their jobs, that is neither here nor there.

 

[Coredump]

Just think about this. Just a few people at Hasbro and WOTC are earning all the profits from these book sales. Meanwhile the employees who actually worked on the game are being let go and the fans who play-tested the game are actually the ones paying all the profits!

I would bet that almost everyone that bought this book would have paid more for it. Lets say it was priced another $5-10... it would have sold just as well.

So the fans are getting *more* value than they are actually paying for.... pretty good deal for them.


Second, the people that created it got paid for the work they supplied. Good deal for them.

Last, you obviously have no concept about how a corporation operates if you think "a few people" are "earning all the profits"

 

[Eirikrautha]

Just think about this. Just a few people at Hasbro and WOTC are earning all the profits from these book sales. Meanwhile the employees who actually worked on the game are being let go and the fans who play-tested the game are actually the ones paying all the profits!

Just think about this. Paizo (whose Pathfinder game you said you would be switching to... So why do you care enough to continue to post about 5e?) employs a TON of people, meaning the profits of the game are being split among all those employees, leaving each employee to get only a pittance from the game they helped create! And the players who playtested the game are stuck paying only tiny subsistence wages to these employees because of how many times the profit must be divided! The fans are basically slave-drivers!

Oh, wait. That's just as ridiculous as your original post. Nevermind...

 

[aramis erak]

Just think about this. Paizo (whose Pathfinder game you said you would be switching to... So why do you care enough to continue to post about 5e?) employs a TON of people, meaning the profits of the game are being split among all those employees, leaving each employee to get only a pittance from the game they helped create! And the players who playtested the game are stuck paying only tiny subsistence wages to these employees because of how many times the profit must be divided! The fans are basically slave-drivers!

Oh, wait. That's just as ridiculous as your original post. Nevermind...

And leaves out that the core engine used by Pathfinder was developed at WotC...

 

[Mistwell]

Just think about this. Just a few people at Hasbro and WOTC are earning all the profits from these book sales. Meanwhile the employees who actually worked on the game are being let go and the fans who play-tested the game are actually the ones paying all the profits!

Wow...OK, two people were let go, and one person is being hired. Grand total of one net loss of employees working there.

 

[Eirikrautha]

And leaves out that the core engine used by Pathfinder was developed at WotC...

I thought about that after I posted, but since the statement I was parodying has little resemblance to reality anyway, I just let it slide...

 

[TerraDave]

Just think about this. Just a few people at Hasbro and WOTC are earning all the profits from these book sales. Meanwhile the employees who actually worked on the game are being let go and the fans who play-tested the game are actually the ones paying all the profits!

I don't want to defend WotC employment practices...

But D&D being profitable is probably a good thing.