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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4863223" data-attributes="member: 957">So why did Necromancer run into the issues that Clark recently posted about?To me it is a simple issue of Joesph's savvy including being in exactly the right niche for sales to the 4E market.  Separately, has there EVER been any claim by anyone that 3E is selling as well now as 4E is selling now???  It seems a total red herring argument point to me.  Is this where the lines are now being drawn?  Congratulations to 4E, the 1 year old game is outselling the 10 year old out-of-print game.I agreed with 90% of what he said.  But I thought pointing at game stores as some kind of proof that the divide is purely an on-line phenomena was silly.  Particularly as game stores continue to dwindle and die and be less and less a part of the overall market.I very much agree that 4E has tapped into a lot of new players.  And that certainly off-sets the divide to some degree.    It remains to be seen when these new fad gamers will start spending money month after month and how many will have moved on to some other fad within the next couple years.  Being an easy grab-and-go game is a double-edged sword.</blockquote>