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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6760558" data-attributes="member: 40166"><p>But as a measure of quality, they're better than sales. Unless Avatar was really the best movie of all time (#2 adjusted for inflation).</p><p></p><p>In any case, it proves what I was claiming; that the reviews on Amazon are pretty bad.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nice way to turn it into an edition war. Let me repeat a statement that I made: the SCAG has an Amazon average that is a full star less than any other 5E hardback book.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's not at all true, if you're buying a book that is sitting at #745 in books. Several thousand books a year reach that point; do you buy all of them?</p><p></p><p>Green Ronin has put out a number of books. Given that by that standard all their recent books have been complete failures, why exactly did Hasbro tap them to do this project? Could it have something to do with the fact that Wizards of the Coast putting out an official book about the Forgotten Realms was going to sell way, way higher then about anything a non-WotC company could put out in the RPG field? Could it have something to do with the fact that brands really do matter in gaming and this book had a couple of the biggest in the industry on it?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If people are buying SCAG and being disappointed because it isn't the book they personally want, that's a problem for the buyers. They shouldn't buy it because it's "successful" (as rated by sales); they should read reviews and figure out that it's not a book that will make them happy!</p><p></p><p>I would say that it's certainly a bad book for WotC if a lot of people are complaining that it isn't the book they personally want. When they're only putting out a handful of books a year, they can't afford to put out many books that aren't what their customers want. Even if we assume, for the sake of discussion, that the problem with this book is that it's not what people wanted, that's not a dismissable problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 6760558, member: 40166"] But as a measure of quality, they're better than sales. Unless Avatar was really the best movie of all time (#2 adjusted for inflation). In any case, it proves what I was claiming; that the reviews on Amazon are pretty bad. Nice way to turn it into an edition war. Let me repeat a statement that I made: the SCAG has an Amazon average that is a full star less than any other 5E hardback book. That's not at all true, if you're buying a book that is sitting at #745 in books. Several thousand books a year reach that point; do you buy all of them? Green Ronin has put out a number of books. Given that by that standard all their recent books have been complete failures, why exactly did Hasbro tap them to do this project? Could it have something to do with the fact that Wizards of the Coast putting out an official book about the Forgotten Realms was going to sell way, way higher then about anything a non-WotC company could put out in the RPG field? Could it have something to do with the fact that brands really do matter in gaming and this book had a couple of the biggest in the industry on it? If people are buying SCAG and being disappointed because it isn't the book they personally want, that's a problem for the buyers. They shouldn't buy it because it's "successful" (as rated by sales); they should read reviews and figure out that it's not a book that will make them happy! I would say that it's certainly a bad book for WotC if a lot of people are complaining that it isn't the book they personally want. When they're only putting out a handful of books a year, they can't afford to put out many books that aren't what their customers want. Even if we assume, for the sake of discussion, that the problem with this book is that it's not what people wanted, that's not a dismissable problem. [/QUOTE]
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