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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 2456621" data-attributes="member: 7394">Having seen things first-hand, I would have to agree with 100% of what Mike Mearls said above. One of the companies I work with did an informal study at a series of cons they attended a couple years ago. Every time someone came up and bought a book, they asked how much time they spent at ENWorld. Ninety percent of those people responded "ENWhat?" But the overall customer awareness doesn't actually measure the impact it has on the industry. For me, ENWorld is very important because its a place where I can get some feedback on the stuff I've designed. If I hear 10 negative comments about a book and only three positive, then I look at what is being said to determine where things went wrong. One the other hand, if the reverse is true then I allow myself to give myself a pat on the back and try to determine where things went right. One thing you also have to look at with ENWorld or any other online community is what the signal to noise ratio is. Take 3.5, for instance (which I didn't work on at all). I'm the first person to agree that they were probably released a year or two too early. On the other hand, having played through 3.0 and seeing just how much better the game plays and how many more options there are for both players and DMs under 3.5, I pretty much ignore the anti-3.5 bile that is constantly seething to the surface. Yeah, there's a lot of people who would have liked to have gotten more mileage out of their 3.0 books, and I can understand that, but in my mind, the 3.5 books are far superior and worth every penny paid.</blockquote>

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