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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7281308" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>According to WotC, each ed on their watch has been more popular than the one before. But none have re-captured the unit sales of the fad years.</p><p></p><p>For instance, 5E sold more books is 3 years than 3e did in seven - but less than TSR did per year in the 80s.</p><p></p><p>Instead, the shortening of edition life-cycles after 1e probably has more to do with boardrooms than game tables. D&D has gone from TSR to WotC to Hasbro and from flagship to rescue to bycatch to would-be core brand to come-back classic that might have a movie in it, now that it's own fans have (mostly) stopped slandering it.</p><p></p><p>New eds don't map to that rollercoaster, precisely - rolling an ed takes time - but there's a lot driving the brand's fate beyond relatively trivial differences in how much less popular it is at a given moment than it was at the height of the fad in the 80s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7281308, member: 996"] According to WotC, each ed on their watch has been more popular than the one before. But none have re-captured the unit sales of the fad years. For instance, 5E sold more books is 3 years than 3e did in seven - but less than TSR did per year in the 80s. Instead, the shortening of edition life-cycles after 1e probably has more to do with boardrooms than game tables. D&D has gone from TSR to WotC to Hasbro and from flagship to rescue to bycatch to would-be core brand to come-back classic that might have a movie in it, now that it's own fans have (mostly) stopped slandering it. New eds don't map to that rollercoaster, precisely - rolling an ed takes time - but there's a lot driving the brand's fate beyond relatively trivial differences in how much less popular it is at a given moment than it was at the height of the fad in the 80s. [/QUOTE]
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