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<blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5609226" data-attributes="member: 10479">Nope, retailers made good money the initial surge and the subsequent years, and the amount of stuff that was difficult to move was not unlike any other boom and bust period or trend in tabletop gaming.The brand was strengthened, the retailers made tons of money, the system was innovated, customers had unprecendented amounts of choice and options.&nbsp; Everyone won from what I could tell.Competing?&nbsp; Hardly.&nbsp; Certainly not by any realisitic standard.&nbsp; Sales of core official books were orders of magnitude beyond anything else by WotC or 3rd parties, from everything I read and heard.&nbsp; What you suggest is a fiction.The brand's place in the market was never higher, by all accounts I have heard and read.Links?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; Not going to do the leg work but if you do it yourself and find anything to the contrary of what I posted, feel free to shoot my position right on down.&nbsp; I'll read what you come up with, consider the sources, and adjust what I believe accordingly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark CMG, post: 5609226, member: 10479"] Nope, retailers made good money the initial surge and the subsequent years, and the amount of stuff that was difficult to move was not unlike any other boom and bust period or trend in tabletop gaming. The brand was strengthened, the retailers made tons of money, the system was innovated, customers had unprecendented amounts of choice and options. Everyone won from what I could tell. Competing? Hardly. Certainly not by any realisitic standard. Sales of core official books were orders of magnitude beyond anything else by WotC or 3rd parties, from everything I read and heard. What you suggest is a fiction. The brand's place in the market was never higher, by all accounts I have heard and read. Links? Nope. Not going to do the leg work but if you do it yourself and find anything to the contrary of what I posted, feel free to shoot my position right on down. I'll read what you come up with, consider the sources, and adjust what I believe accordingly. [/QUOTE]

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