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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 8864509" data-attributes="member: 56488">Well, depends on how well they can define metrics, but yes, I think if the books continue to sell as well as they are today, having the PHB still strongly up in the book ratings on Amazon etc, I think they could consider that a success.  If they can determine who is buying the books, if they can work out that majority of books sold are to new customers, with not that many to old, then again a success, and I don't think under this paradigm they should be looking to replicate the sales numbers from 5e launch (assuming that today's sales are lower than launch sales).For the rest of it, I agree that history by TSR / WOTC has trained older players to see this as an edition change, but we may not be the ones WOTC is trying to address, but all the new customers they have got on board with 5e, to try and make it not appear like an edition change to them - if they haven't experienced the past, then they will have less of a trained mindset as such.I'm willing to give this mindset a go, and consider it not an edition change, and wait to see what happens as to whether that aim is realised or not, and it will come down to whether I feel me and my group need to upgrade to the new player options straight away, or just merge in a bit of the new rules as we see fit (like we've done with the inspiration changes as it felt it made sense), and whether or not we do change, whether we can play the campaigns / adventures we have now readily with or without the 2024 books.</blockquote>

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