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<blockquote data-quote="Lokiare" data-source="post: 6260828" data-attributes="member: 83996">The problem is the CEO of WotC is a Hasbro plant from their management team. They originally bought WotC with the agreement that WotC would manage itself. Then later Hasbro exercised their option as stock holders to replace the WotC CEO with someone else of their choice. Which has a mid level Hasbro management person loyal to Hasbro. Which is when the nightmare of the lofty sales goals killed 3.5E and then later 4E.With that little history lesson aside, D&amp;D is such a tiny part of WotC sales that its never mentioned. Only MtG is mentioned. I'd hazard a guess that MtG is 99% of WotC's income and the rest is split between its other properties (D&amp;D included). According to the constraints on 4E since they failed to meet their sales goals, its likely that 5E is working off the income taken in by the D&amp;D brand (not including books, movies, and other products) which is why they were desperately trying to put their PDFs on sale on drivethrurupg.com to make enough money to pay the very small group of full time employees working on 5E.If 5E fails, its likely that D&amp;D will be shelved as a TTRPG and made into board games, books, and cheap cable movies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lokiare, post: 6260828, member: 83996"] The problem is the CEO of WotC is a Hasbro plant from their management team. They originally bought WotC with the agreement that WotC would manage itself. Then later Hasbro exercised their option as stock holders to replace the WotC CEO with someone else of their choice. Which has a mid level Hasbro management person loyal to Hasbro. Which is when the nightmare of the lofty sales goals killed 3.5E and then later 4E. With that little history lesson aside, D&D is such a tiny part of WotC sales that its never mentioned. Only MtG is mentioned. I'd hazard a guess that MtG is 99% of WotC's income and the rest is split between its other properties (D&D included). According to the constraints on 4E since they failed to meet their sales goals, its likely that 5E is working off the income taken in by the D&D brand (not including books, movies, and other products) which is why they were desperately trying to put their PDFs on sale on drivethrurupg.com to make enough money to pay the very small group of full time employees working on 5E. If 5E fails, its likely that D&D will be shelved as a TTRPG and made into board games, books, and cheap cable movies. [/QUOTE]

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