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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4866750" data-attributes="member: 40961"><p>1. His response to Hobo is dishonest. He's comparing the price on a trade paperback to the price on a mass market paperback. He works in publishing, he has to know that these are not the same thing. The same book experiences about a 50% cost swing as it shifts between those two types of publication. Two minutes in a Barnes and Nobles should be enough to notice this.</p><p> </p><p>2. His comment about boardgame profits and the possibility that more expensive boardgames are being purchased is probably very wrong. First, lets note that its at best a conspiracy style apologetic- he isn't saying that his theory IS true, or even that there's reason to SUSPECT that his theory is true. He's just saying that the stats given <em>fail to disprove</em> his theory, and that therefore the more intuitive explanation of the available data should not be accepted. While I love my eurogames, I would be very, very VERY surprised if eurogames were responsible for an increase in dollars of product sold at the same time as copies sold was declining. The success of Catan notwithstanding, the typical eurogame is something that Mishler should be quite familiar with- a small print run luxury good with a print run in the low thousands that is sold in specialty stores and on the internet. In contrast, Monopoly or Apples to Apples sells in my grocery store.</p><p> </p><p>3. His argument about the devaluation of Pathfinder's core rules due to them being available in the OGL is not likely correct. 3e counts as an experiment regarding the validity of this argument.</p><p> </p><p>4. His repeated assertions that Paizo is screwing themselves by expecting the majority of their profits to come from the sale of supplementary material that customers do not actually need, and his actual career, are somewhat at odds.</p><p> </p><p>5. As I browse his page, I'm not sure why I should even respect someone who thinks that rolling up a character instead of using point buy makes you a more hardcore gamer. Why am I writing this response? I'm out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4866750, member: 40961"] 1. His response to Hobo is dishonest. He's comparing the price on a trade paperback to the price on a mass market paperback. He works in publishing, he has to know that these are not the same thing. The same book experiences about a 50% cost swing as it shifts between those two types of publication. Two minutes in a Barnes and Nobles should be enough to notice this. 2. His comment about boardgame profits and the possibility that more expensive boardgames are being purchased is probably very wrong. First, lets note that its at best a conspiracy style apologetic- he isn't saying that his theory IS true, or even that there's reason to SUSPECT that his theory is true. He's just saying that the stats given [I]fail to disprove[/I] his theory, and that therefore the more intuitive explanation of the available data should not be accepted. While I love my eurogames, I would be very, very VERY surprised if eurogames were responsible for an increase in dollars of product sold at the same time as copies sold was declining. The success of Catan notwithstanding, the typical eurogame is something that Mishler should be quite familiar with- a small print run luxury good with a print run in the low thousands that is sold in specialty stores and on the internet. In contrast, Monopoly or Apples to Apples sells in my grocery store. 3. His argument about the devaluation of Pathfinder's core rules due to them being available in the OGL is not likely correct. 3e counts as an experiment regarding the validity of this argument. 4. His repeated assertions that Paizo is screwing themselves by expecting the majority of their profits to come from the sale of supplementary material that customers do not actually need, and his actual career, are somewhat at odds. 5. As I browse his page, I'm not sure why I should even respect someone who thinks that rolling up a character instead of using point buy makes you a more hardcore gamer. Why am I writing this response? I'm out. [/QUOTE]
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