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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8259690" data-attributes="member: 6704184">If you were to claim that 5e isn’t a vastly bigger part of their revenue than D&D has been in the past, you’d be laughed at by any reasonable person. As it is, I still find your claim to be dubious, at best. It’s based on a dynamic that isn’t really the case any more. The books are sold at a mark up that made sense when they needed to recoup costs from fairly small numbers of sales post-launch (every edition but 5e), but nearly every book they’ve put out for D&D has had huge sales even years after publication.On top of that, DTRPG is very nearly all profit for wotc, and even fairly small creators make wotc thousands per year, with hundreds of such creators.On top of that is the licensing revenue, both from digital tools and from merch. D&D is making vastly more money than ever. I’ve seen no indication that Magic is growing similarly. It’s big, but not really any bigger than it was 8 years ago. So the claim that mtg far outweighs D&D in revenue is...questionable.</blockquote>