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[UPDATED] Has ADVENTURER'S HANDBOOK Been Cancelled?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 7657712" data-attributes="member: 6701829"><p>The tabletop game is <em>out</em>. It's been released, and has been very warmly received. It is "complete".</p><p></p><p>Will they release more products for it down the line? Sure. But splatbooks beyond the core three have never generated enough profit to support the D&D division hence Christmas lay-offs and perpetual core revision and new edition treadmill (3.0 --> 3.5 --> 4E --> Essentials --> 5E). </p><p></p><p>This time, the philosophy is different - produce a solid, well-received game, and treat it as an evergreen product to perpetually sell to new players, like Monopoly or Scrabble. The real money is to be made in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQEVgbMqq7o" target="_blank">moichandizing</a> which means things Neverwinter, D&D board games and a Hollywood movie. </p><p></p><p>They're using the tabletop game to build the D&D brand loyalty for those products which will continually make them money, and in turn those products will attract more fans to the pen and paper game - all the little tykes and college nerds who end up buying the core books because "this is the game that Neverwinter / Lords of Waterdeep / the D&D movie was based on". <em>That's</em> how you create an "everlasting edition". </p><p></p><p>This is the best possible model for D&D going forward because otherwise it's just not going to earn enough money for Wizards to avoid new editions continually being churned out. The lack of product coming out isn't Wizards not knowing how to make D&D profitable, it's Wizards deciding that spending time and resources putting out books for the pen and paper RPG is just about the <em>least</em> profitable thing they could do with the IP - it's <em>always</em> been small potatoes compared to MTG and this time they've decided on a new strategy of much less bloat to make sure someone 25 years from now can walk into a Toys-R-Us and still buy the same core rulebook I've got on my bookshelf right now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickster Spirit, post: 7657712, member: 6701829"] The tabletop game is [i]out[/i]. It's been released, and has been very warmly received. It is "complete". Will they release more products for it down the line? Sure. But splatbooks beyond the core three have never generated enough profit to support the D&D division hence Christmas lay-offs and perpetual core revision and new edition treadmill (3.0 --> 3.5 --> 4E --> Essentials --> 5E). This time, the philosophy is different - produce a solid, well-received game, and treat it as an evergreen product to perpetually sell to new players, like Monopoly or Scrabble. The real money is to be made in [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQEVgbMqq7o"]moichandizing[/URL] which means things Neverwinter, D&D board games and a Hollywood movie. They're using the tabletop game to build the D&D brand loyalty for those products which will continually make them money, and in turn those products will attract more fans to the pen and paper game - all the little tykes and college nerds who end up buying the core books because "this is the game that Neverwinter / Lords of Waterdeep / the D&D movie was based on". [i]That's[/i] how you create an "everlasting edition". This is the best possible model for D&D going forward because otherwise it's just not going to earn enough money for Wizards to avoid new editions continually being churned out. The lack of product coming out isn't Wizards not knowing how to make D&D profitable, it's Wizards deciding that spending time and resources putting out books for the pen and paper RPG is just about the [i]least[/i] profitable thing they could do with the IP - it's [i]always[/i] been small potatoes compared to MTG and this time they've decided on a new strategy of much less bloat to make sure someone 25 years from now can walk into a Toys-R-Us and still buy the same core rulebook I've got on my bookshelf right now. [/QUOTE]
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