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Topic	Netflix seriously pulled the D&D episode of Community
ParanoidObsessive 07/03/20 12:10:28 PM #72:	streamofthesky posted... Ah, the D&D 4th edition credo whenever there was a complaint! How'd that work out for WotC? Quite well, honestly. 4e sold fairly well considering the entire RPG industry was in a massive slump period that could have killed tabletop gaming as a business. It meant WotC's sales expectations, really only slumped when Pathfinder came out as an alternative (and even then, 4e still sold well enough), and brought a lot of new people into the hobby (which is part of what laid the groundwork for the 5e resurgence). I guarantee you there isn't a single executive in WotC who looks back at 4e and regrets what they did with it. If anything, they're more likely to regret 3e, because the OGL helped glut the market with so many competing products (of variable quality) that it helped suffocate it (similar to the Video Game Crash of 1983 and the Comic Book Crash of 1993). By the end of 3e, there was a very real perception from a lot of people that tabletop gaming as a whole was coming to an end (not helped by the complete collapse of White Wolf, which to that point had become D&D's main rival and which actually sold better than D&D for about a decade). 4e's purpose was to attract new players who really only played video games and had no real interest in tabletop gaming (because there was a perception that the audience needed to grow, because it would stagnate and die without a massive influx of new blood). It did exactly that. 4e brought in players who otherwise would never have played a tabletop RPG. And those players helped prime the pump for the next generation. 5e sort of went back to basics with a more simplified, streamlined version of older systems that would still appeal to the new audience while pulling back some of the old grognards who weren't irrevocably welded to their old editions. That balance of old and new, combined with the rise of online media and gaming streams, has effectively made 5e the most financially successful edition they've ever had. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:941618300] in Netflix se... [t:78817819]...</cite> <quote><cite>streamofthesky posted...</cite> <quote>Ah, the D&D 4th edition credo whenever there was a complaint! How'd that work out for WotC?</quote> Quite well, honestly. 4e sold fairly well considering the entire RPG industry was in a massive slump period that could have killed tabletop gaming as a business. It meant WotC's sales expectations, really only slumped when Pathfinder came out as an alternative (and even then, 4e still sold well enough), and brought a lot of new people into the hobby (which is part of what laid the groundwork for the 5e resurgence). I guarantee you there isn't a single executive in WotC who looks back at 4e and regrets what they did with it. If anything, they're more likely to regret 3e, because the OGL helped glut the market with so many competing products (of variable quality) that it helped suffocate it (similar to the Video Game Crash of 1983 and the Comic Book Crash of 1993). By the end of 3e, there was a very real perception from a lot of people that tabletop gaming as a whole was coming to an end (not helped by the complete collapse of White Wolf, which to that point had become D&D's main rival and which actually sold better than D&D for about a decade). 4e's purpose was to attract new players who really only played video games and had no real interest in tabletop gaming (because there was a perception that the audience needed to grow, because it would stagnate and die without a massive influx of new blood). It did exactly that. 4e brought in players who otherwise would never have played a tabletop RPG. And those players helped prime the pump for the next generation. 5e sort of went back to basics with a more simplified, streamlined version of older systems that would still appeal to the new audience while pulling back some of the old grognards who weren't irrevocably welded to their old editions. That balance of old and new, combined with the rise of online media and gaming streams, has effectively made 5e the most financially successful edition they've ever had. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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