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<blockquote data-quote="occam" data-source="post: 9619448" data-attributes="member: 39815">WotC minion: &quot;Uh, sir, people are questioning the wording of our press release, referring to the Player's Handbook as a 'product' instead of a 'book', and about being the 'fastest-selling' instead of the 'best-selling'. It'd be great if you could clear that up for folks at the earnings call.&quot;Chris Cocks: &quot;Good note, I'll take care of it. Thank you, minion.&quot;Later, at the earnings call...Chris Cocks: &quot;Both the new Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide [are] breaking records for the best-selling D&amp;D books ever.&quot;WotC skeptics: &quot;Hmm, first it was the fastest-selling product, now it's the best-selling book? Why is WotC being so cagey? What are they trying to hide?!&quot;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />WotC announced that the Player's Handbook, which is a book, was the fastest-selling product (a broader category than &quot;book&quot;) in D&amp;D history. But you claim, based on nothing at all, that they didn't call the Player's Handbook the fastest-selling &quot;book&quot; because they were trying to trick people somehow.So, fine, they call the Player's Handbook a &quot;book&quot; at the earnings call. And then you cast doubt on that, too?Dude, you are really twisting yourself into pretzels to leave open arguments against the obvious meanings of words. You should be careful, you can get stuck doing that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="occam, post: 9619448, member: 39815"] [I]WotC minion:[/I] "Uh, sir, people are questioning the wording of our press release, referring to the [I]Player's Hand[U]book[/U][/I] as a 'product' instead of a 'book', and about being the 'fastest-selling' instead of the 'best-selling'. It'd be great if you could clear that up for folks at the earnings call." [I]Chris Cocks:[/I] "Good note, I'll take care of it. Thank you, minion." [I]Later, at the earnings call... Chris Cocks:[/I] "Both the new [I]Player's Handbook[/I] and [I]Dungeon Master's Guide[/I] [are] breaking records for the best-selling D&D books ever." [I]WotC skeptics:[/I] "Hmm, first it was the fastest-selling product, now it's the best-selling book? Why is WotC being so cagey? What are they trying to hide?!" :rolleyes: WotC announced that the [I]Player's Handbook[/I], which [I]is a book[/I], was the fastest-selling product (a [I]broader[/I] category than "book") in D&D history. But you claim, based on nothing at all, that they didn't call the [I]Player's Handbook[/I] the fastest-selling "book" because they were trying to trick people somehow. So, fine, they call the [I]Player's Handbook[/I] a "book" at the earnings call. And then you cast doubt on that, too? Dude, you are really twisting yourself into pretzels to leave open arguments against the obvious meanings of words. You should be careful, you can get stuck doing that. [/QUOTE]

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