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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4572483" data-attributes="member: 2067">In the context of the thread, &quot;meaningless&quot; was mostly referring to &quot;meaingless for those of us who play the thing.&quot; As far as you or I or anyone else who doesn't work for WotC is concerned, the sales aren't important. Good core book sales doesn't mean anything for any of us. If the new Kanye West album goes gold, that won't mean anything to any of us music listeners. It doesn't mean we should go out and listen to it. It doesn't mean it's better than his previous albums. It doesn't mean he's going to still be around in 10 years. For the consumers, it's meaningless.The new D&amp;D core books sold well. That doesn't mean you should go out and play it. It doesn't mean it's better than previous editions. It doesn't mean it's still going to be around in 10 years. For the consumers, it's meaningless.WotC probably has a bigger investment in knowing what the sales are, but WotC probably also has better information than we do, so our discussions about 4e sales certainly aren't helping THEM learn anything new. Because they also have a bigger investment, they might be more concerned with gaming the numbers a little bit. It's a pretty standard practice, and it makes you look good, and it makes people more interested when they hear about it more. That kind of goes back to what the OP said. The sales don't matter. 4e is here, it'll be here for a while, and taking joy over the sales success or joy over the sales failure is pretty pointless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4572483, member: 2067"] In the context of the thread, "meaningless" was mostly referring to "meaingless for those of us who play the thing." As far as you or I or anyone else who doesn't work for WotC is concerned, the sales aren't important. Good core book sales doesn't mean anything for any of us. If the new Kanye West album goes gold, that won't mean anything to any of us music listeners. It doesn't mean we should go out and listen to it. It doesn't mean it's better than his previous albums. It doesn't mean he's going to still be around in 10 years. For the consumers, it's meaningless. The new D&D core books sold well. That doesn't mean you should go out and play it. It doesn't mean it's better than previous editions. It doesn't mean it's still going to be around in 10 years. For the consumers, it's meaningless. WotC probably has a bigger investment in knowing what the sales are, but WotC probably also has better information than we do, so our discussions about 4e sales certainly aren't helping THEM learn anything new. Because they also have a bigger investment, they might be more concerned with gaming the numbers a little bit. It's a pretty standard practice, and it makes you look good, and it makes people more interested when they hear about it more. That kind of goes back to what the OP said. The sales don't matter. 4e is here, it'll be here for a while, and taking joy over the sales success or joy over the sales failure is pretty pointless. [/QUOTE]

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