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<blockquote data-quote="Troll Hunter" data-source="post: 2513448" data-attributes="member: 15926"><p>Hmm, Per Charles Ryan (RPG Category Manager for D&D and D20) comments on the WOTC General Board, they disagree with you there. Remember they have the actual sales numbers from TSR and their own records from the transition period from AD&D to 3.0 on the last of those campaign products you want so badly.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately even a product like Greyhawk (which in my opinion would have been a greater seller than Ravenloft, Planescape, Dark Sun, Gamma World and Oriental Adventures) would only get sales in the thousands or at best in the tens of thousands is not worth developing. Why? Because per WOTC <span style="color: DarkOrange">the generic books you look down upon sell in the hundreds of thousands</span>.</p><p></p><p>So on your limited development budget do you create a product that sells to thousands - maybe tens of thousands or to a product that sells to hundreds of thousands?</p><p></p><p>Mind you that even epic and psionics books are considered average to poor sellers. Check out his comments in the [Woof] marked threads on WOTC general board (I believe MerricB posted a link on these boards in another thread) on epic and psionic content. You can also see and read it within the commentary at the GENCON seminar.</p><p></p><p>Also as many people like to bluntly state it, WOTC is a “money-grubbing” profit-focused business, you place your limited development dollars that give you the best returns – the products that the greatest number of people will buy. The products they develop and sell make their stock holders and investors happy and the largest segment of the gaming markets get products they like. The niche players will have to wait (epic and psionic) or create their own for everyone else.</p><p></p><p>FWIW I did buy Ravenloft 3.0 and I am sorry but I thought it was horrible. IMO the fluff was poorly written and there was a real lack of crunch. I never bought any more products in that line again. It sits on my bookcase gathering dust next to Midnight 3.0 and too many other products I should have never bought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Troll Hunter, post: 2513448, member: 15926"] Hmm, Per Charles Ryan (RPG Category Manager for D&D and D20) comments on the WOTC General Board, they disagree with you there. Remember they have the actual sales numbers from TSR and their own records from the transition period from AD&D to 3.0 on the last of those campaign products you want so badly. Unfortunately even a product like Greyhawk (which in my opinion would have been a greater seller than Ravenloft, Planescape, Dark Sun, Gamma World and Oriental Adventures) would only get sales in the thousands or at best in the tens of thousands is not worth developing. Why? Because per WOTC [COLOR=DarkOrange]the generic books you look down upon sell in the hundreds of thousands[/COLOR]. So on your limited development budget do you create a product that sells to thousands - maybe tens of thousands or to a product that sells to hundreds of thousands? Mind you that even epic and psionics books are considered average to poor sellers. Check out his comments in the [Woof] marked threads on WOTC general board (I believe MerricB posted a link on these boards in another thread) on epic and psionic content. You can also see and read it within the commentary at the GENCON seminar. Also as many people like to bluntly state it, WOTC is a “money-grubbing” profit-focused business, you place your limited development dollars that give you the best returns – the products that the greatest number of people will buy. The products they develop and sell make their stock holders and investors happy and the largest segment of the gaming markets get products they like. The niche players will have to wait (epic and psionic) or create their own for everyone else. FWIW I did buy Ravenloft 3.0 and I am sorry but I thought it was horrible. IMO the fluff was poorly written and there was a real lack of crunch. I never bought any more products in that line again. It sits on my bookcase gathering dust next to Midnight 3.0 and too many other products I should have never bought. [/QUOTE]
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