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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 9782407" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Except they dont break down sales. Money is one thing. I believe financial statements from WoC they've been very coy with hard data or cherry picked numbers.  Its possible sales are down income is up. Because of Beyond.  Im not that interested in 5.5 sales as such. I expect them to be excellent first year. The pattern/trajectory would be more interesting though. Do sales go up year on year or are they like every other edition and front loaded with decline over the years. Whatever that pattern would be would cause tears on ENworld though. If its more typical the glazers fo 5E/wotc see would be crying, the boomers would be told you so. I would say as expected no big deal.  If it was like 5E pattern glazers would be I told you so and doormers would keep bitching. I would say were in for another longer cycle.  If sales fell off a cliff we would be getting 6E sooner rather than later. Then the cycle repeats with new doomers and glazers. If the editions good I buy 40× books if its bad I'll buy 3 books. One more bad edition i think I'll retire from D&D. I'll be approaching 60+ by then lol (47 now).</blockquote>