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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9397295" data-attributes="member: 7006">Quite frankly I don't even think WotC necessarily cares how many people buy the 5E24 books compared to the 5E14 ones.  Reason being... these three books will absolutely outsell any OTHER type of book they otherwise would have released instead.  More players are going to buy these revised books (and keep buying these revised books) more than any new 'Of Everything' splatbook they could have published, so it's a net benefit for them.  Yeah, okay... so they don't reach the heights of total sales of the 10 years of 5E14.  Oh darn!  I don't think they (or any of us) would have thought otherwise.  But if we're just talking sales and money... these three are best things they could release right now for the largest influx of cash.But once these core books are on the shelves (and the 5E14 books do not get reprinted and thus fewer and fewer copies become available and people just buy the 5E24 core books instead anyway)... any other adventure book printed after that will still be 5E edition agnostic-- meaning that anyone here who says they don't want to spend the money to buy the new core books can STILL buy and use the new adventure books even with the 5E14 rules they stick with.  And that means WotC can be unconcerned that you didn't buy the three revised core books.  You're still playing 5E D&D and will still purchase and make use of a lot of stuff they release in the future.  So it's a win-win for them.</blockquote>

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