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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9148037" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Fine by me. I believe I should not speak further on the subject.Indeed.By what measure? Because by economic measures--units sold and dollars earned--every new edition has been the &quot;most popular edition.&quot; We've had current and former staff explicitly say as much. The 3e PHB outsold the 2e PHB. The 3.5e PHB outsold the 3e PHB. The 4e PHB1 outsold the 3.5e PHB.Lack of backlash? Every edition has had a ton of it. Yes, it was more contentious for 4e. 4e was also the first edition that launched in a world with a widely-accessible internet, and the echo chamber effect was, and remains, severe.Run the numbers, pick the stats that support your case, disregard anything inconvenient, and you can literally argue that any edition you want is the &quot;most popular edition.&quot; Because, again, this conflates the measure of the characteristic for the actual characteristic itself: surrogation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9148037, member: 6790260"] Fine by me. I believe I should not speak further on the subject. Indeed. By what measure? Because by economic measures--units sold and dollars earned--[I]every[/I] new edition has been the "[I]most[/I] popular edition." We've had current and former staff explicitly say as much. The 3e PHB outsold the 2e PHB. The 3.5e PHB outsold the 3e PHB. The 4e PHB1 outsold the 3.5e PHB. Lack of backlash? [I]Every[/I] edition has had a ton of it. Yes, it was more contentious for 4e. 4e was also the first edition that launched in a world with a widely-accessible internet, and the echo chamber effect was, and remains, severe. Run the numbers, pick the stats that support your case, disregard anything inconvenient, and you can literally argue that any edition you want is the "most popular edition." Because, again, this conflates the measure of the characteristic for the actual characteristic itself: surrogation. [/QUOTE]

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