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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4537853" data-attributes="member: 2572">On the various points.The reason some 3e supporters want to see bad sales figures for 4e is the same reason some 4e supporters want to make sure 4e is considered an amazing success, it is all part of the edition wars.WotC has made missleading statements such as 4e was not being worked on when it was, and that the DDI would be ready when they knew it wouldn't. While they have never lied, I have found that in the last few years all their statements need to be parsed and strict literal meanings need to be read into them because more often than not the impression they give is not the same as the literal reading. As for the success of 4e it cannot be interpreted from initial 4e book sales alone. Hasbro expects a certain profit margin and anything below that margin is not acceptable even if it still a profit and not a loss. Look at DDM, it was still making a profit but sales were declining over a period of 2 years after its initial success and was canceled and reworked into a different product. In addition to long term success which can't be derived from 4 months of sales the intial profit margins were probably based on DDI sales as well. And when DDI sales are combined with 4e book sales for this year, those are the profit margins which Hasbro will base success or failure decisions on. So while 4e book sales could be wonderful, if DDI fails the book sales numbers may not be high enough alone to qualify 4e a success even if they are 50% bigger than 3e book sales.</blockquote>

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