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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 4818278" data-attributes="member: 83805">According to my sources, 3.5E sales (both 3pp and WotC) were already starting to slow significantly as early as late-2005/early-2006, while essentially falling off a cliff in 2007.  The only way that most older 3.5E stuff could sell after the Aug 2007 announcement of 4E D&D, was to put them in the bargain bin.My sources attributed the significant sales decline of the WotC supplement books (starting sometime around late-2005/early-2006), to the lackluster content quality of most of the WotC D&D supplement books released after 2004.  They also attributed the decline to the increasing frequency of WotC supplements being released after 2004.  Before 2004, WotC was releasing an average of one book per month for 3E D&D since 2000.  After mid/late 2004, WotC was releasing an average of two books per month for 3.5E D&D.An increase in the rate of new books being released with declining content quality, turned out to be poor for business in the end.  Haven't we all heard this before, from a decade earlier during end days of TSR back in the mid 1990's?  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />With respect to 3pp 4E stuff, my sources have mentioned that it has been slow going so far.  Even the WotC 4E modules have been slow going too.</blockquote>