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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9228694" data-attributes="member: 907">Those all seem like perfectly reasonable sales graphs to me. When a thing gets published, it sells a lot in a short time, because people have been waiting for it and there's a pent-up demand. After that, sales either peter out entirely or settle down to a more steady pace. Looking at the 2e PHB for example, it seems to have sold about 300k in its first year, and then settled at about 100k per year until 1995 (the OG 2e PHB drops off in 1995 but that's because people buy the revised version instead). They drop fairly sharply in 1996 and 1997, but that's when TSR's financial troubles came to a head.Similarly with the Forgotten Realms things. Original box sells well in its first year, and then has steady sales through 1992. Forgotten Realms Adventures is not a stand-alone setting book, but more of an update to the setting explaining how it works with the new rules, as well as providing specialty priests for the main gods. Again, sells well when published and then settles down – although doing so significantly faster, but still having sales just below those of the 1e box set. The sales of both basically disappear in 1993 when the revised box is published – now this has a significantly smaller initial bump, but I believe that's because quite a few people already had the grey box and FRA, and didn't see the need to upgrade. It's still a bump over the steady sales of the grey box, and it seems to settle down at a similar steady level as well.And as for Greyhawk sales... yeah, there's a reason they stopped making Greyhawk. While one may argue the artistic merits of Greyhawk vs Forgotten Realms, it makes no sense to support two near-identical pseudo-medieval fantasy settings at the same time, and Forgotten Realms was clearly the more commercially successful of the two.</blockquote>

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