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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 4465829" data-attributes="member: 5122">It depends on what you mean.  You could say that I "wanted" random minis, because I wanted a large selection of different miniatures as a reasonable price.  Randomization is what makes that possible.  Since price and selection were more important to me than non-random distribution, I "wanted" random distribution.(FWIW, I no longer want random distribution, because I have enough minis that "selection" isn't all that important to me any longer.  So I've moved entirely to the secondary market to pick and choose the minis I want.)Retailers like random minis, but not for the reason you cite.  Retailers want random minis because a box of boosters is one SKU.  You effectively have 60 different miniatures occupying one shelf in your store and one spot on your inventory sheet.  Retailers -- brick-and-mortar retailers, at least -- are going to have to devote many times the space and effort to stocking non-randomized DDM ... unless, of course, there's simply very little selection, which is actually pretty likely.Merric's Law -- Non-random, large selection, cheap.  Pick any two.Me, I suspect -- just suspect, I have no inside information or anything -- that WotC is going this route because sales of DDM have significantly dropped off for the last two or three sets.  This -- if true -- would be due to a few factors (a significant drop in paint and sculpt quality, a major change in the DDM game rules, and long-time collectors getting over-saturated), but the upshot is that they need to find another quick monetary shot-in-the-arm from DDM.  Since they have the molds, and they know that (e.g.) a set of 15 different orcs will sell, why not?</blockquote>

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