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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 1398697" data-attributes="member: 10177">Hasbro/WOTC release sales figures as well as sales projections. IT is required for their stockholders. It is also available wherever you can find stock portfolio information.Think you can find the info now?IS 3.5 broken? That is a separate question from the sales practices of Hasbro/WOTC. 3.5 does exactly what it is supposed to do, so no it is not broken.Was 3.5 done with profit in mind? Yes. Was it done with the kind of ethics and consumer sensitivity we should expect? No. Does that make what they did wrong? No, because we have the choice of buying it.Did WOTC doing a 3.5 shaft the gaming community? Only those who bought it because it was there to buy, and didn't like what they paid for. I didn't get shafted because I hadn't bought anything 3.5 until I could get it second hand, or when the spine on my PHB split. Now I will be buying 4 new PH's and 2 new DMG's. One PH for me and each of my 3 kids, and 1 DMG for me and one for my kids to use. I have bought them from Wal Mart on-line for $18.76 each, plus almost $5.00 in shipping. Since I live in CA, Walmart had to charge me 7.5% in tax. Which is fine, I would have had to pay it at the end of the year anyway. So 3.5 isn't broke and WOTC didn't rip me off, because I didn't buy 3.5 books until I had a NEED to do so. This desire of mine to keep from being ripped off also broke me of being a completist. Now I do not buy every book put out by WOTC. I only get it when I have a use for it. Which means I haven't bought a lot of books I would have before they ticked me off with 3.5.So I am glad WOTC ticked me off. It has made me a much smarter buyer.</blockquote>

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