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Cubicle 7 bids farewell to Qin, Rocket Age, Yggdrasill and more…
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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 7719064" data-attributes="member: 10738"><p>True, but perhaps I am finally coming around to the idea that an RPG should not define its health by the brick-and-mortar distribution system's limited needs. Online sales and POD may be the best way to go for books like these. Both were so slight in their actual impact on the hobby due to the limits of the conventional distribution system that my knowledge of either system came well after the fact of their release, and via more obscure references at rpg.net and elsewhere. Kickstarter is even worse...it will cater to the closed loop of fans but without sufficient marketing (a difficult prospect) it won't reach potential buyers like myself who aren't in that loop (unless they advertise on ENWorld, I suppose).</p><p></p><p>I suppose what I am saying is that no game like Kuro or Qin need fade away simply because the old school distribution method suggests they have run out of life. Yes...and apologies as I go anecdotal here.....I live in a state where neither of these books would ever be sold or stocked by the FLGSs anyway, unfortunately, so online options remain my only best bet anyway.</p><p></p><p>(All I'm really saying is that I agree with your last comment: whoever owns/continues with Qin and Kuro, making these available in POD format somewhere couldn't possibly hurt. There's still a long tail for sales on both books, I think.)</p><p></p><p>EDIT: was checking again at ebay. Kuro is around $200 for a copy there. Sigh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doctor Futurity, post: 7719064, member: 10738"] True, but perhaps I am finally coming around to the idea that an RPG should not define its health by the brick-and-mortar distribution system's limited needs. Online sales and POD may be the best way to go for books like these. Both were so slight in their actual impact on the hobby due to the limits of the conventional distribution system that my knowledge of either system came well after the fact of their release, and via more obscure references at rpg.net and elsewhere. Kickstarter is even worse...it will cater to the closed loop of fans but without sufficient marketing (a difficult prospect) it won't reach potential buyers like myself who aren't in that loop (unless they advertise on ENWorld, I suppose). I suppose what I am saying is that no game like Kuro or Qin need fade away simply because the old school distribution method suggests they have run out of life. Yes...and apologies as I go anecdotal here.....I live in a state where neither of these books would ever be sold or stocked by the FLGSs anyway, unfortunately, so online options remain my only best bet anyway. (All I'm really saying is that I agree with your last comment: whoever owns/continues with Qin and Kuro, making these available in POD format somewhere couldn't possibly hurt. There's still a long tail for sales on both books, I think.) EDIT: was checking again at ebay. Kuro is around $200 for a copy there. Sigh. [/QUOTE]
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