Quote from: Aos;446043I think your second statement answers the question posed in your first.

But does it reveal the answer to the ferret question?

Quote from: Aos;446043I think your second statement answers the question posed in your first.

Indeed. Also, there's apparently going to be a Nentir Vale board game. A light blub went off when I learned that one.

Seanchai

Quote from: Seanchai;446048Indeed. Also, there's apparently going to be a Nentir Vale board game. A light blub went off when I learned that one.

As well as a Drizzt boardgame.

http://wizards.com/dnd/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/355940000

Quote from: StormBringer;446047But does it reveal the answer to the ferret question?

The ferret question can only be answered by the agonized screams of 1000 mimes  as they are bottle raped by the light of the full moon.

Quote from: Aos;446043I think your second statement answers the question posed in your first.

Yes, but that's a short term goal. All it does it bring in profits from those final few users that were waiting on said product. It does little to build overall product street identity and doesn't bolster the users. Unless D&D is going pyramid scheme. Door to door D&D sales guys, like Amway.

Quote from: Aos;446059The ferret question can only be answered by the agonized screams of 1000 mimes  as they are bottle raped by the light of the full moon.

19 Mar 2011

Quote from: Mostlyjoe;446060Yes, but that's a short term goal. All it does it bring in profits from those final few users that were waiting on said product. It does little to build overall product street identity and doesn't bolster the users. Unless D&D is going pyramid scheme. Door to door D&D sales guys, like Amway.

1. The vast majority of the products canceled were not going to bring new customers in. They were splat books. Splat books are sold to existing customers- pretty much exclusively.  You don't buy Nentir Vale, for example, unless you are already a customer.

2. Why would anyone who had internet access go door to door?  

3. I think that encounters, the starter set and the board games are the way they want to bring new people in. You play a little encounters/or your uncle gets you Ravenloft for Xmass. You become curious, and so you buy the core books or the starter set- whatever- all those products have adds in them pointing to the DDI.  You want more content you subscribe and then they have you, for a few months at least.

Quote from: Seanchai;446048A light blub went off when I learned that one.

Seanchai

Is that the same as a tiny tear?

Quote from: One Horse Town;446115Is that the same as a tiny tear?

Eh. I don't think so.

Seanchai