So...How are Sales of 4E Product?

[darjr]

Who freaking cares if 3e sold better then 4e or if 4e is better then 3e. These arguments are so damn old and tired already. If you like 3e, good for you, if you like 4e, good for you. I happen to like all editions and will play all editions with equal enthusiasm. Grow up and get off this "My (insert meaningless possession) is better then your (insert similar but newer or older meaningless possession)

How bout you get off your high horse and stop telling people what to do?

I like both editions of the game. I'm very interested in this, I'm not sure why, but this is MY leisure time. If you can't take it then just ignore it.

 

[Jack99]

Perhaps the word "record" does not mean what one of us thinks it means. Can you name one or two of the "all sort of records" which have supposedly claimed to be broken by 4E?

Size of initial print run: the 4e was larger than 3e or 3.5
Time to sell out of initial print run: 4e sold through its initial print run faster than 3e or 3.5.

You could also add: Highest placement of a RPG book on the NYT best-seller list. First D&D book to make it the yearly amazon best-seller list. Best placed RPG ever on the amazon.com list.

A record = An unsurpassed measurement.

In this case, its an unsurpassed measurement as far as we know (since we have zero numbers from 1e/2e).

 

[garyh]

Sales rank doesn't mean much, as an idividual sample, cause it's calculated hourly.

The hourly movers, yeah. But the gift set is 25th on Amazon's list of sales for the year. That's purely total sales, not "hot or not." That's pretty impressive.

 

[darjr]

The hourly movers, yeah. But the gift set is 25th on Amazon's list of sales for the year. That's purely total sales, not "hot or not." That's pretty impressive.

That's what I keep saying...

Anyway, the movers and shakers are NOT hourly, they are based on 24 hours of the sales rank data.

Or did I miss the joke?

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

This is found, make of it, as you will.

Well, strangely enough, it tells me that you Gringos stop buying D&D books when there´s a presidential election.

 

[garyh]

That's what I keep saying...

Anyway, the movers and shakers are NOT hourly, they are based on 24 hours of the sales rank data.

Or did I miss the joke?

Got mixed up in the crossfire. I thought you were disparaging the Amazon data. Never mind me...

 

[darjr]

Got mixed up in the crossfire. I thought you were disparaging the Amazon data. Never mind me...

The more I thought about it I thought you were making a joke about how many times I repeated it.

 

[Delta]

You could also add: Highest placement of a RPG book on the NYT best-seller list. First D&D book to make it the yearly amazon best-seller list. Best placed RPG ever on the amazon.com list.

A record = An unsurpassed measurement.

In this case, its an unsurpassed measurement as far as we know (since we have zero numbers from 1e/2e).

Well there you go -- you didn't say there were claims of records "as far as we know". You would have to know 1E and 2E sales to establish it as a true record. Of which I am skeptical and seen no evidence or official claims.

Most of that stuff didn't even exist in the 1E/2E era. Can I get a link documenting the "highest placement of a RPG book on the NYT best-seller list?" And are you also qualifying that to just the 3E/4E era?

 

[Wayside]

Well there you go -- you didn't say there were claims of records "as far as we know". You would have to know 1E and 2E sales to establish it as a true record. Of which I am skeptical and seen no evidence or official claims.

Every record is a record "as far as we know." Or did you forget that record is a verb as well as a noun?

A record is simply the highest or lowest recorded measurement in one direction or another.

d. A performance or occurrence remarkable among, or going beyond, others of the same kind; spec. the best recorded achievement in any competitive sport.

Nobody can say for certain who the fastest runner ever or the oldest person ever etc. were, and that makes no difference at all as far as setting records goes.

 

[Vorput]

I don't really have anything to contribute, but want to be part of this thread.

Here's a d6 that rolled low: