Does anyone know if Wizards/Hasboro releases sales figures for individual books? I am truly curious. I know the company did amazingly well last year (more than a billion dollars; all from Gygax's "$300 game"!) I am curious, though, how some of these books--Candlekeep, Feywild--are selling. The newest book looks so incredibly different to me than the more traditional game worlds and adventures. I wonder how they are doing sales-wise.
I am also very curious about this. On the old stream &Beyond with Adam Bradford they started showing the community stats on classes/subclasses used, feats used, etc. I'd be very curious to see what books sell the most. Obviously the big 3 are going to sell them most, but I would bet following those the highest selling books are sourcebooks. Would be really cool to see a breakdown of those. Might be a good idea (data driven decision making!) to publish more books like the ones that do well. For example if XGtE and TCoE sell the next most, maybe focus more on books with subclasses/monsters/items/feats/etc.
This type of information is normally not shared with the public. While public companies may have requirements that demand they share some information to provide color to possible investors. This information is usually kept close to the vest and you will only get a much higher level view of numbers like that. Ie, D&D Product content (books) product sells which would combine all of them into a single number.
That said, many times you can infer which products are more successful than others based on public response.
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Does anyone know if Wizards/Hasboro releases sales figures for individual books? I am truly curious. I know the company did amazingly well last year (more than a billion dollars; all from Gygax's "$300 game"!) I am curious, though, how some of these books--Candlekeep, Feywild--are selling. The newest book looks so incredibly different to me than the more traditional game worlds and adventures. I wonder how they are doing sales-wise.
I am also very curious about this. On the old stream &Beyond with Adam Bradford they started showing the community stats on classes/subclasses used, feats used, etc. I'd be very curious to see what books sell the most. Obviously the big 3 are going to sell them most, but I would bet following those the highest selling books are sourcebooks. Would be really cool to see a breakdown of those. Might be a good idea (data driven decision making!) to publish more books like the ones that do well. For example if XGtE and TCoE sell the next most, maybe focus more on books with subclasses/monsters/items/feats/etc.
This type of information is normally not shared with the public. While public companies may have requirements that demand they share some information to provide color to possible investors. This information is usually kept close to the vest and you will only get a much higher level view of numbers like that. Ie, D&D Product content (books) product sells which would combine all of them into a single number.
That said, many times you can infer which products are more successful than others based on public response.
Info, Inflow, Overload. Knowledge Black Hole Imminent!