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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PMárk" data-source="post: 6921124" data-attributes="member: 6804619">I think nobody claimed that they aren't successful financially. However, as it got mentioned, part of it is the recent cultural environment. Also those numbers are all show just a part of the truth. For example, the VTTs are skewed toward d20 games.And frankly, looking at the number of how much people play the game on Fantasy Grounds is absolutely irrelevant to me when considering whether 5e is still an interesting game to me, or should I go and play something else. I'm not an employee of WotC. That the game sells a lot of core books and lot of people playing it online still won't results in books i want to buy from them. I'm not interested in that kind of numbers porn. I'm happy they are successful, I'm happy lot of people playing the game. I'm not happy they didn't find the middle ground yet for doing this and still publishing material, even through licenses or in pdf in small quantities I'm interested in.Financial success alone doesn't make it a good and interesting game. Coca Cola is successful, McD is successful, Nike is successful. A lot of singers and bands are successful and making big money whom I don't care a <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> about. I didn't saw 2/3s of the comics-based movies, because I'm not that interested in them.</blockquote>

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