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I wouldn't look at list rankings like that. Amazon changes what's on each ranking from time to time. I would look more at absolute rankings based on a combination of daily sales and monthly sales, according to one site that translates ranks into book sales. It's not the first time. It's been...

I wouldn't consider it as selling yet. It's great for Paizo, don't get me wrong, but the KS is paying for development, not sales. I assume all of this money, or most of it, will go to pay development costs. My fear with all of these very successful KS campaigns is they haven't accurately priced...

I was interested to see that Call of Cthulu did so well on the list. I wonder if this is an indication of a more competitive #2 game for players or just a site specific thing.

Hello! Since you wrote the report, I have a question regarding all of the numbers. As these are percentages, could you say something about the total number of games on roll20? Is that number going up or down? I'm interested in knowing whether the player base is growing, declining, or staying the...

Thanks for that one! I completely agree on reliability questuon. If I had several of these calculators, I'd probably look at the range and average values to try and get a more trustworthy estimate. Unless there is a difference because of when the claculators were made or updated or some third...

I've been using FREE Amazon Sales Estimator - Predict Your Sales | Rank Calculator to look at what the ranks mean. It surprising sometimes how big and how little a jump from its low of #6200 to a recent high of 1900 is. That's a 20% increase in monthly sales, if it continues. That's significant...

Maybe there is some special promotion for games? 5th ed and ZWEIHANDER are also up this weekend if you track their rankings. There are some widgets that estimate the sales from the rank, so you can see that is a pretty significant but not a huge absolute increase in sales numbers. I wouldn't...

From the little research I did, WOTC has a network of distributors stores can chose from. Paizo only uses Diamond as far as I can tell, which likely is the reason for the lack of representation.

It's a different type of data point. The gaming landscape was much different when 1e was released and at its peak. In the early days of this new edition with a strong 5th ed and a bigger rpg pie, comparing to the start of 1e or the peak is a bit apples to oranges. If I was working for Paizo, I...

It's gone lower since you looked. Both the PF2e core and the Bestiary are about at the levels they were holding relatively stable at before a holiday bump. However, they could break new lows soon (keep an eye on whether the core enters the 6000s). WRT the Bestiary, it means that there is not...

I completely agree. This is very generic to me. How is it better? How is it going well? In the past, the company has not been shy about crowing when it was on top. I don't take her new post as any indication that things are good, bad, or neutral. Unless there is a statement with numbers or...

Community, personalities, value of the opinions, tenor of the conversations, moderator behavior, etc. There are also more conversation topics than what I said. Those were just examples. And frankly, if there is no discussion of thos other items outside the one lively company board, where the...

We're already seeing a slide in the numbers, so i bet this was a temporary gift card spree. Heck, I did the same for a new gaming book. Side note, I think the results of the poll on this site in another forum topic is another indicator that P2 is havin a slow first year. On a site where I see a...

In the link I posted above that tracks a week of Amazon sales, I saw that I also missed the 2nd ed special edition from my calc. So let's be completely fair and compare all the 2nd ed core versions that I can find so fare to all the 1st ed core. As it should be, the numbers are much better...

Much of whart I've been posting is not about 5th ed vs Pathfinder. It's about using Amazon numbers as a proxy for understanding how well it's going overall. This is commonly done when you don't have direct information. I don't trust the numbers as a direct measure of sales. Instead what I can...

Thanks for the question. Actually, that was for the pocked edition only. The non-pocket version sells less than the pocket version. However, when you combine the two, 1st ed core versions sell about 15% more right now than 2nd ed core based on what Amazon sales rank to sales amount calculators...

Putting rough numbers into a sales estimator, this would be a 10 to 12% drop in sales. I don't know enough to say whether that is a big deal to Paizo or not. Overall, since it seems we're at a little bit of a stable place, today's sales number is about 50% of where it was after launch when it...

I thought there might be a black Friday sale that is lifting all games. Cthulu also has some ones on the list. Looking at the week of Amazon sales numbers, this sale got Pathfinder out of the #4000 to 5000 "channel" it's been stuck in for a few weeks into the 2900 to 3500 ranks. To me, the...

A big difference because this is D&D/Pathfinder and not Paranoia. I've been playing for decades, and almost all of the time the first only comes up if the players are going into extreme dry climates, while the latter always comes up. I've only known one DM back in the 80s who made his players...

People might be interested in this site I found recently: Amazon.com Sales Ranks (US). You can track the Amazon numbers over time. Looks like both the core book and Bestiary had a big drop, but then recovered, although there still may be slow declines at worst, holding steady for now. The newer...