Starfinder Starfinder rockets to the top on Amazon!

TerraDave · Aug 19, 2017

D&D has some actual competition on Amazon.

Technically the PHB is still hanging at #1, but Starfinder is putting numbers far ahead of any past Paizo product, or non WotC game book.

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I will have to dig around to find the links, but I think PF peaked at around 400-600, though it stayed in that range for a long time (and outsold many 4E books). EDIT: See below!

Paizo also does its own internal rankings. For months on presales it hung around in the middle of the pack, outsold by whatever the latest thing was for PF. As of last night it was reported as number 1. It would kind of have to be.

Now the question is will it have legs? I am going to be heading to my FLGS, and may have an opinion after that.

Nikosandros · Aug 19, 2017

Are Paizo's internal sales ranking available online?

TerraDave · Aug 19, 2017

I get them in a weekly email.

Normally the latest AP is top, then latest player splat, then DM stuff. Corebook is in the middle somewhere. Starfinder was hanging around the middle but no longer.

Nikosandros · Aug 19, 2017

TerraDave said:
I get them in a weekly email.

I had forgotten about those. I get them, but I haven't actually read them in a while...

Erik Mona · Aug 20, 2017

I was chatting with Bulmahn yesterday and he thinks he remembers the PF Core Rulebook peaking at 87 or so, so I guess at 86 above this thing technically outperformed our main product. It's at 93 now and bounces around a lot. I was pleased to see you caught it lower than I did!

--Erik Mona

TerraDave · Aug 20, 2017

Erik Mona said:
I was chatting with Bulmahn yesterday and he thinks he remembers the PF Core Rulebook peaking at 87 or so, so I guess at 86 above this thing technically outperformed our main product. It's at 93 now and bounces around a lot. I was pleased to see you caught it lower than I did!

--Erik Mona

Thanks for that. We could never confirm it with the ole "wayback machine" or interweb chatter from the time.

happyhermit · Aug 22, 2017

It really seems to be doing well, apparently it sold very well at Gencon too, and of course Paizo sells direct. It has dropped down to #246 atm in the U.S in All books (#45 in Canada), which shows how hard it must be to keep those high rankings.

Interestingly, it is cheaper on amazon than at Paizo, right now $47.51, even when you price the PDF at $9.99 and compare to the subscription. Even more interesting to me though, is it is only $0.20 more in Canada, which is weird considering the exchange rate and everything right now (in Canada it is $38 USD and free shipping).

Lygah · Aug 23, 2017

happyhermit said:
It really seems to be doing well, apparently it sold very well at Gencon too, and of course Paizo sells direct. It has dropped down to #246 atm in the U.S in All books (#45 in Canada), which shows how hard it must be to keep those high rankings.

Interestingly, it is cheaper on amazon than at Paizo, right now $47.51, even when you price the PDF at $9.99 and compare to the subscription. Even more interesting to me though, is it is only $0.20 more in Canada, which is weird considering the exchange rate and everything right now (in Canada it is $38 USD and free shipping).

Sadly it may be cheaper on Amazon.ca, but its back ordered out at least a month at the moment. At least that's what my pre-order is still telling me, assuming they had copies in the first place.

happyhermit · Aug 23, 2017

Lygah said:
Sadly it may be cheaper on Amazon.ca, but its back ordered out at least a month at the moment. At least that's what my pre-order is still telling me, assuming they had copies in the first place.

I wouldn't have expected that