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I just don't see why they even bothered with the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.
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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 6756382" data-attributes="member: 957"><p>I'm not at all clear why we have to make the quantum leap to 10 books.</p><p>It is also funny to see the same data interpreting mistakes of the last edition repeated.</p><p>At this point in 4E's life it was still the conventional wisdom that it was the edition for a generation, a few hard-hearted, closed-minded 3e-lovings h4ters were not going to do anything about that.</p><p></p><p>So, all that said, it will be shocking if it ISN'T at the top. They have released a trickle. But what really is their competition? I don't see anyone arguing that PF is more popular that 5E. </p><p>That doesn't mean they could not triple their sales volume with three times the books.</p><p>But it says NOTHING about margins. You have no clue what their margins are.</p><p>The reasonable interpretation is that whatever those margins are they fall under "not worth the bother". They want to produce just enough to string along the interest for their shot at a big movie.</p><p>If they were making big money, they would be doing more of what makes the big money. </p><p>But being "bigger than PF", doesn't mean they show up as blip on the kind of financial scale WotC and Hasbro care about. (And, yes, I know they have been mentioned in reports. I also know how those reports get spun. If something grows by a huge %, you play that up, regardless of the $).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 6756382, member: 957"] I'm not at all clear why we have to make the quantum leap to 10 books. It is also funny to see the same data interpreting mistakes of the last edition repeated. At this point in 4E's life it was still the conventional wisdom that it was the edition for a generation, a few hard-hearted, closed-minded 3e-lovings h4ters were not going to do anything about that. So, all that said, it will be shocking if it ISN'T at the top. They have released a trickle. But what really is their competition? I don't see anyone arguing that PF is more popular that 5E. That doesn't mean they could not triple their sales volume with three times the books. But it says NOTHING about margins. You have no clue what their margins are. The reasonable interpretation is that whatever those margins are they fall under "not worth the bother". They want to produce just enough to string along the interest for their shot at a big movie. If they were making big money, they would be doing more of what makes the big money. But being "bigger than PF", doesn't mean they show up as blip on the kind of financial scale WotC and Hasbro care about. (And, yes, I know they have been mentioned in reports. I also know how those reports get spun. If something grows by a huge %, you play that up, regardless of the $). [/QUOTE]
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