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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5355360" data-attributes="member: 58197">Come on. He can't publicize WotC financial data just to make a point on a message board, and at this point you're just quibbling. If he says it's a success (in the financial sense), I think we can take it that he knows what he's talking about.As to whether financial success will translate into long-term benefits for the hobby? Hard to say, but it seems likely to me. At least some of the Encounters players will have a blast and decide they want to try &quot;the real thing,&quot; so in an absolute sense it will increase the player base.The danger is over-focusing on the Encounters market at the expense of the committed, long-term DM base, which as several people have pointed out really is the core of the hobby; they'll have to go through a lot of Encounters players to find a replacement for a single experienced DM. And of course we don't know what the &quot;conversion rate&quot; is between Encounters and traditional D&amp;D. (On the plus side, WotC has an incentive to push that conversion. A traditional D&amp;D player/DM is surely going to buy more stuff than an Encounters player or DM.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5355360, member: 58197"] Come on. He can't publicize WotC financial data just to make a point on a message board, and at this point you're just quibbling. If he says it's a success (in the financial sense), I think we can take it that he knows what he's talking about. As to whether financial success will translate into long-term benefits for the hobby? Hard to say, but it seems likely to me. At least some of the Encounters players will have a blast and decide they want to try "the real thing," so in an absolute sense it will increase the player base. The danger is over-focusing on the Encounters market at the expense of the committed, long-term DM base, which as several people have pointed out really is the core of the hobby; they'll have to go through a lot of Encounters players to find a replacement for a single experienced DM. And of course we don't know what the "conversion rate" is between Encounters and traditional D&D. (On the plus side, WotC has an incentive to push that conversion. A traditional D&D player/DM is surely going to buy more stuff than an Encounters player or DM.) [/QUOTE]

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