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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9853109" data-attributes="member: 4348">I don't think people are reading what I put down in an analytical way.  Let's put it in an easier way for people to understand...There were an average of over 30 million who watched each game of the world series.  The maximum any game had of those who watched were 50 million.An average of 15-16 million watched each game in the US.In context, if there were 80 million D&D fans in relation to those numbers, it would mean if you walked down the street in any US city and asked each person you would have a 5x better chance of talking to someone who was a fan of D&D (Fan, not just someone who knows it exists) than you would of someone who watched the Baseball World series.You go to the country in the US and the same thing would happen.PS:  and just so you know...I do not feel even Hasbro thinks there are 80 fans.  It's a PR number phrased in such a way that people (such as in this thread, as I said, there are going to be those who argue that there are 80 million+ D&D fans with a straight face) that someone could read it to mean current fans, but that's not what it actually means.  They don't want to get caught blatantly lying so they don't phrase it to mean that...but in a way so that people can interpret it that way to build hype, but the wording could mean fans through it's history, etc..etc..etc.This thread is evidence of that idea, that yes, there are many out there who actually will not only believe there are 80 million fans despite the incredubility of it all, the evidence against it, but will actively argue that the idea of 80 million current fans is actually accurate!</blockquote>

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