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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 6553662" data-attributes="member: 6701829"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?1847-D-D-5th-Edition-Release-Schedules#.VP4YCfnF-rw" target="_blank">Sure thing. </a>They've not formally announced a second adventure path for 2015 yet but have said they're planning on two a year.Optimized for what?Optimized for number of products to support a game line? Sure.But what schedule do you go with if you're optimizing for not declining over time? I know if I were promoting bigI don't have Wizards' numbers. The numbers might be the opposite - putting out lots and lots of splatbooks actually does make more sense financially - but if that were the case, why aren't we seeing lots and lots of splatbooks?Far more likely that lots and lots of splatbooks doesn't make them significantly more money than they figure they can make putting out a few a year. No, Wizards has Wizards' numbers, and they know exactly how less they make at the end of an edition cycle than at the beginning of one.Rather than boom --> decline --> fallow period between editions --> next boom, I think this time they're pursuing a "slow and steady wins the race" strategy.And I'm skeptical that more products would help. But I don't think the goal is to keep D&D #1 long term. When it comes to who's selling more copies of which brand's imaginary elf game, I don't think Wizards or Hasbro really does care which one comes on top. Sure, they'd rather gamers spend their money on their own offering, but really they just want people to show up for a D&D movie or video game, which will make them more money that all of Wizard's and Paizo's hardcovers in a year put together. And in real life, nerd tribalism isn't nearly so much of a thing that Pathfinder players won't go see a Dungeons and Dragons movie, so ultimately Paizo isn't even really viewed as competition in Wizards' eyes.And yes, WotC has dropped the ball before. That's precisely why I'm so glad they're trying something different this time.</blockquote>

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