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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 7661962" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>It might make me a bad person, but I can't help thinking, "Wow!!! What an ENORMOUS shocker!!! </sarcasm>" New editions always drum up sales, and this one had two and a half years of discussion (most of which had an open 'playtest') to get people hyped about it. If D&D <em>hadn't</em> risen to the top, then maybe we'd have some real information to learn here--but it did, so we don't.</p><p></p><p>Plus, as always, the ICv2 numbers are hardly useful statistics, since they ignore everything outside the narrow (but important, no question) domain of physical game stores <em>that report to ICv2</em>. I doubt there are many people left who don't know all the faults in taking ICv2 data as gospel. It's a moderately interesting talking point, but a barometer of actual game stuff it ain't.</p><p></p><p>Especially since D&D's fall coincided with a sluggish and then <em>zero</em> release schedule, and now the new edition is explicitly going to move at a snail's pace compared to both previous WotC editions. I really wonder how critics-come-fans-of-5e will take it when Pathfinder rises to the top again.</p><p></p><p>Edit: That said, it is cool to see sustained interest in other games. It'd be even better if we could see ANY kind of numbers beyond "first-rank, second-rank, third-rank" etc. but that'll never happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 7661962, member: 6790260"] It might make me a bad person, but I can't help thinking, "Wow!!! What an ENORMOUS shocker!!! </sarcasm>" New editions always drum up sales, and this one had two and a half years of discussion (most of which had an open 'playtest') to get people hyped about it. If D&D [I]hadn't[/I] risen to the top, then maybe we'd have some real information to learn here--but it did, so we don't. Plus, as always, the ICv2 numbers are hardly useful statistics, since they ignore everything outside the narrow (but important, no question) domain of physical game stores [I]that report to ICv2[/I]. I doubt there are many people left who don't know all the faults in taking ICv2 data as gospel. It's a moderately interesting talking point, but a barometer of actual game stuff it ain't. Especially since D&D's fall coincided with a sluggish and then [I]zero[/I] release schedule, and now the new edition is explicitly going to move at a snail's pace compared to both previous WotC editions. I really wonder how critics-come-fans-of-5e will take it when Pathfinder rises to the top again. Edit: That said, it is cool to see sustained interest in other games. It'd be even better if we could see ANY kind of numbers beyond "first-rank, second-rank, third-rank" etc. but that'll never happen. [/QUOTE]
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