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<blockquote data-quote="Col_Pladoh" data-source="post: 161068" data-attributes="member: 796">Wow! did sales ever jump when the media attacked the D&amp;D game. They were doing it to boost their ratings and sell ads. Sure worked for TSR too. We quadrupled sales instead of only doubling them as I had projected for the year. We couldn't print dfast enough, and that too increased demand.The peak was likely 1983, and then the &quot;fad&quot; players began to drop off, as it was no longer the symbol of rebellious behavior to play D&amp;D.The real problems came when D&amp;D began to turn out some questionable product in 1984-5, and TSR being on the verge of backruptcy then. When 2E came out about 50% of the D&amp;D audience deserted TSR, and sales really went south then.As of now, it seems that 3E sales are about at the 1982-3 level of AD&amp;D, so things are going well for WotC.Not on the pop culture radar screen? Hey, think of all the mentions of the D&amp;D game that are heads on TV. The game is still solidly in pop culture<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Ciao,Gary</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Col_Pladoh, post: 161068, member: 796"] Wow! did sales ever jump when the media attacked the D&D game. They were doing it to boost their ratings and sell ads. Sure worked for TSR too. We quadrupled sales instead of only doubling them as I had projected for the year. We couldn't print dfast enough, and that too increased demand. The peak was likely 1983, and then the "fad" players began to drop off, as it was no longer the symbol of rebellious behavior to play D&D. The real problems came when D&D began to turn out some questionable product in 1984-5, and TSR being on the verge of backruptcy then. When 2E came out about 50% of the D&D audience deserted TSR, and sales really went south then. As of now, it seems that 3E sales are about at the 1982-3 level of AD&D, so things are going well for WotC. Not on the pop culture radar screen? Hey, think of all the mentions of the D&D game that are heads on TV. The game is still solidly in pop culture;) Ciao, Gary [/QUOTE]

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