D&D 5E (2024) Rate D&D 2024

[kermit4karate]

One star in Amazon is "the box was damaged" and five star is "order delivered in time", so not worth a lot.

I do not believe that most customers who choose to leave a vote on Amazon define the scale that way. If they did, they wouldn't couple the score with an actual written review. They don't just say 5 stars, "order delivered in time."

 

[Reynard]

the 2014 PHB has 54k votes, the 2024 PHB has 2k. Compare that to the 2024 DMG and MM at 30k votes each… wonder why the PHB has so few (for 2014 the DMG also has 30k votes…)

Read into that what you will

I wonder if 2024 players are using Beyond at a higher rate than 2014 players.

 

[kermit4karate]

Data! Need MOAR DATA!!!

 

[kermit4karate]

I wonder if 2024 players are using Beyond at a higher rate than 2014 players.

That would be an interesting data point.

 

[kermit4karate]

I didn’t think nefarious / vote spamming (don’t you need to have bought it from them to vote?), I was more thinking of the number of votes correlating to number of sales, ie the PHB selling significantly less than DMG or MM, not that I have an explanation for that

Ah, understood. I just googled, and it sounds like people are able to leave reviews as long as their Amazon account is "in good standing," even if they haven't purchased a particular product.

So a WotC marketing campaign, for example, could have funneled a lot of traffic to the DMG and MM Amazon pages for a while.... Could be a lot of things, but I bet the reason has more to do with marketing, pricing and timing than anything else.

I think it's safe to assume that the lower # of reviews for the PHB does imply fewer Amazon sales of that book, but what one should reasonably infer about its popularity from that is something else. Maybe it's selling slower on Amazon because Target started selling it at a lower price, stuff like that? Unknown.

 

[mamba]

I do not believe that most customers who choose to leave a vote on Amazon define the scale that way. If they did, they wouldn't couple the score with an actual written review. They don't just say 5 stars, "order delivered in time."

you’d be surprised….

 

[payn]

I wonder if 2024 players are using Beyond at a higher rate than 2014 players.

When did Beyond launch? Was it in 2014? I dont recall it much talked about back then. Though, I do hear about it often now, and think EN World folks often underrate its use.

 

[kermit4karate]

Shadow of the Weird Wizard is my system of choice, ToV if it ‘needs’ to be a 5e-like / 5.5 equivalent.

ToV is a national treasure.

 

[mamba]

I wonder if 2024 players are using Beyond at a higher rate than 2014 players.

I assume they do, but not that this explains the difference. For 2014 there were around 1.8 PHBs per DMG, now there are 0.06, that is far too much of a swing.

Also, wouldn’t they buy the DMG and MM there too?

 

[FrogReaver]

I assume they do, but not that this explains the difference. For 2014 there were around 1.8 PHBs per DMG, now there are 0.06, that is far too much of a swing.

Also, wouldn’t they buy the DMG and MM there too?

We know PHB sales much better than MM and DMG. Always has, always will. So I don’t know why the numbers on amazon are that way, but I know they are wrong.