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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7130781" data-attributes="member: 2525">First, this is one of the sillier posts I've seen all week.  An edition on life support? It's outselling all the prior editions since AD&D. It's ranking in top books (all books, not RPG books) for sales on Amazon.  It's the most talked about RPG on the internet by massive margins.  It's well outselling all other RPGs in retail stores.  It's the first edition to ever make the FCC-regulated quarterly reports of Hasbro for having a meaningful impact on their profits.  I mean, by any measure, we're looking at a very highly successful version of D&D.They don't want to have more books selling.  That was their stated intent up front, they explained why, it was a strategy they selected which they predicted would result in more sales per individual product due to all marketing being focused in one direction for longer periods of time, and that strategy is very clearly paying off.If they wanted to release more books with their current staff they could just outsource more.  Novels used to be routinely outsourced. They don't NEED staff for those - but they held back on them anyway.  Because they don't fit their strategy. That narrative you're peddling fell apart almost 3 years ago. There is literally no evidence left to support it.</blockquote>