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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2081673" data-attributes="member: 158">Basically the trends of purchase by consumers, and the trends of release cycles of various publishers. Apart from TSR, most publishers only wait a few years (about 3 to 5) to release new editions of their games. West End Games Star Wars - 1987 to 1991, then to 1995 or so; White Wolf games - about once every 3 to 5 years; Steve Jackson Games 1st through 3rd edition GURPS, same kind of time range. In fact, GURPS 3rd to 4th is the first time there's been such a long lapse, and even then it was purctuated by the Compendiums.Also, every year sees "the next big thing," First it's D&D, then nintendo, then White Wolf, then Magic the Gathering, Then Pokemon, then 3E, etc. etc.- the further you get from a new product's release, the further it goes out of the public mindshare. We as a public keep moving on to new things. And the fact that you post to this forum and visit regularly means you're one of the diehards like me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I'm more speaking of the general customer base; any time one speaks of the typical or majority D&D player, holding up one's self as an example is using a subset of a subset as an example. All the regulars to ENWorld, Dragonsfoot, Kenzer forums, etc. are not usually in the main market for what the average customer buys.As time went on, and the network shrunk, it may well have - but no one knows for sure because the marketing studies by the major players at the time were nonexistent.</blockquote>

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