Holy crap.Wizards of the Coast showing 46.1% revenue increase from 2020 to 2022
I’d guess “About the same” would be a big chunk.Curious that the responses in the first chart add up to a little over 52%. What about the other +/- 48%? Were there other response choices to the question, or did they not reply at all?
The numbers don’t add up to 100% because people are sleeping, eating, maybe watching TV. A little less of respondents said they are spending 6.9% of their free time on tabletop games. A little more of respondents said they are spending 25.5% of their free time on them. And so on. It’s a very beautiful bar graph.Curious that the responses in the first chart add up to a little over 52%. What about the other +/- 48%? Were there other response choices to the question, or did they not reply at all?
Wizards of the Coast showing 46.1% revenue increase from 2020 to 2022
The value was always there. The pandemic just made us pay attention to it.Interesting bit about in-person importance. I'd guess the pandemic increased the value people place on in-person interaction.
Unless they raised their prices the inflation rate isn't a big deal. They sold more books at the same price point they had before the pandemic. I know the 5E books didn't go up. I don't know about Magic prices though.Yeah, the article does say that, but then it also shows a chart with this revenue progression:
2014: $761.2m
2016: $906.7m (+19.1% since 2014)
2019: $1,286.6m (+41.9% since 2016)
2022: $1,325.1m (+3.0% since 2019)
So... what?
It's particularly misleading because inflation has been high since 2020. 3% is a flatline, if not a decline.
Feels like there is some miscommunication along the way here: latest number O could find was that D&D, specifically, was up big in Q1 2023 over Q1 2022, so they might talking D&D specifically, not WotC as a whole.Yeah, the article does say that, but then it also shows a chart with this revenue progression:
2014: $761.2m
2016: $906.7m (+19.1% since 2014)
2019: $1,286.6m (+41.9% since 2016)
2022: $1,325.1m (+3.0% since 2019)
So... what?
It's particularly misleading because inflation has been high since 2020. 3% is a flatline, if not a decline.