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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 9167532" data-attributes="member: 6680772"><p>So he was essentially missing 2007-2008, the year 4e was announced and the year it was released. I think we can reasonably assume that 3.5 did not do as well or better than previous years in those two years.</p><p></p><p>Then, counting only 3.5's prime years, it did not sell as much as 3e did, and that's with cutting off part of 3e's biggest selling period, which Dancey claims would have doubled 3e's total. So 3.5 did about half of what 3e did. And we know that 3e was prematurely cut short because sales were flagging.</p><p></p><p>Personally, that doesn't sound like a healthy product line cut short only because Hasbro wanted WoW money. In fact, reviewing that thread, you wrote,</p><p></p><p></p><p>3e sold at best 40% less than 2e, and 3.5 sold 50% of that. And these numbers were considered low by the Hasbro execs. And they blamed WoW, released in late 2004, so what they were really looking at were low numbers in 2005-2006. That doesn't sound stable to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 9167532, member: 6680772"] So he was essentially missing 2007-2008, the year 4e was announced and the year it was released. I think we can reasonably assume that 3.5 did not do as well or better than previous years in those two years. Then, counting only 3.5's prime years, it did not sell as much as 3e did, and that's with cutting off part of 3e's biggest selling period, which Dancey claims would have doubled 3e's total. So 3.5 did about half of what 3e did. And we know that 3e was prematurely cut short because sales were flagging. Personally, that doesn't sound like a healthy product line cut short only because Hasbro wanted WoW money. In fact, reviewing that thread, you wrote, 3e sold at best 40% less than 2e, and 3.5 sold 50% of that. And these numbers were considered low by the Hasbro execs. And they blamed WoW, released in late 2004, so what they were really looking at were low numbers in 2005-2006. That doesn't sound stable to me. [/QUOTE]
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