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Legend
Mark said:I'll bet when the FLGS and online stores bought their most recent shipments of 3.5, whenever that happened to be, they were expecting that WotC would be supporting that edition for a bit longer. It's rather abrupt. I would have expected a sell through period of at least three to six months after the new edition.
Actually no. In the store I worked in until April, we had begun winding down 3.5 orders about 3 months or more before so we wouldn't have much stock. I would speculate that a lot of retailers slowed down on their 3.5 orders when before the last 3.5 product came out and went special order only. Anything else would be suicide, we KNEW WOTC would drop 3.5 support as they did the same thing to 2e when 3e came out, Dragon and Dungeon had a sharp change of content. One of the things that hurt TSR was that they were continuing to publish 1e products well into 2e's release and even sold unused core books.