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<blockquote data-quote="oreofox" data-source="post: 7776707" data-attributes="member: 6776240"><p>[MENTION=15700]Sacrosanct[/MENTION] : When I said "Something I am almost certain was a thing with Dungeon and Dragon magazines", I was referring to the part about "going through the products to see what's great and who made it". Everything submitted to Dragon and Dungeon magazines, I am really certain, had someone reading it (or some of it, depending) before being published into the magazines. The DMsGuild has no such thing. Anyone could copy-paste some garbage from dandwiki and toss it onto the Guild.</p><p></p><p>I highly doubt WotC has anyone doing the same with the things put on the Guild, and as far as I know, that's the only way to "submit" anything to WotC. And with the amount of items published on there in a day, it is really easy to get your's lost in the stream. So how does one exactly get noticed by WotC (or another publisher) from something they put on there? Is it number of sales? There's a large amount of "Pay what you want" on there, and the number of those paying anything (with a lot being 1 penny at a time) instead of just putting a 0 in the price box is very low. I have 4 things on there personally. Their numbers are 1185, 1242, 1324, and 1835 (I believe that's more than enough to get everything Gold Seller badge). That's including the free. Take out the free, and those same ones are 93, 118, 112, and 159.</p><p></p><p>DMsGuild is easier to get your stuff out to the masses, depending on how many pages they browse through. I am not being negative towards the Guild. I am glad it is up there. I have gotten a number of good items. I just wish I knew the metric on what they use to notice people. Is it just the ones that manage to get into the top 10 in the "Most Popular DMs Guild Titles"? I know you don't know the answer to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oreofox, post: 7776707, member: 6776240"] [MENTION=15700]Sacrosanct[/MENTION] : When I said "Something I am almost certain was a thing with Dungeon and Dragon magazines", I was referring to the part about "going through the products to see what's great and who made it". Everything submitted to Dragon and Dungeon magazines, I am really certain, had someone reading it (or some of it, depending) before being published into the magazines. The DMsGuild has no such thing. Anyone could copy-paste some garbage from dandwiki and toss it onto the Guild. I highly doubt WotC has anyone doing the same with the things put on the Guild, and as far as I know, that's the only way to "submit" anything to WotC. And with the amount of items published on there in a day, it is really easy to get your's lost in the stream. So how does one exactly get noticed by WotC (or another publisher) from something they put on there? Is it number of sales? There's a large amount of "Pay what you want" on there, and the number of those paying anything (with a lot being 1 penny at a time) instead of just putting a 0 in the price box is very low. I have 4 things on there personally. Their numbers are 1185, 1242, 1324, and 1835 (I believe that's more than enough to get everything Gold Seller badge). That's including the free. Take out the free, and those same ones are 93, 118, 112, and 159. DMsGuild is easier to get your stuff out to the masses, depending on how many pages they browse through. I am not being negative towards the Guild. I am glad it is up there. I have gotten a number of good items. I just wish I knew the metric on what they use to notice people. Is it just the ones that manage to get into the top 10 in the "Most Popular DMs Guild Titles"? I know you don't know the answer to that. [/QUOTE]
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