D&D 5E I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

[billd91]

eh, TSR bankrupted TSR, it just happened during 2e. If they had stuck with 1e they still would have been bankrupt, just sooner [emphasis mine]

Ok, that still does not explain the logic regarding why releasing 2E was a "successful business tactic"

Seems to me that staving off bankruptcy for several years counts as a "successful business tactic". 1e sales had fallen. 2e sales kept things a bit more solvent than would likely have otherwise occurred. How is that not indicative of a successful business tactic?

IMO, releasing 2E was a successful decision, it was the splat overload, too many settings lines, etc, that was the bad decision.

All things which were part of 2E.

Part of the 2e era, sure. But why do you think there wouldn't have been a similar proliferation of settings if they had continued on with 1e? There's nothing about 2e that inherently made those settings possible when they weren't under 1e.

 

[Minigiant]

Being "not a bad business tactic" (and that is debatable) is not the same as being a "successful business tactic"

I still say both releases were successful business tactics.

The screw ups were things outside the releases.