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True but I'll add clarifications too. You mentioned the Avalon Hill and other games items. Consumer Products segment was announed in Feb 2021. I need to confirm this, but I believe that means that even while the management might have been under WotC for much od the year, those items still are...

Ask and you shall receive. You just need to do a little research and use some google-fu. So I wasn't able to parse the latest earnings report, but I can find information for the end of 2020. According to Forbes, Magic made $581.2 million in 2020. ICv2 notes that WotC made $816 million in sales...

Have you gone through past Hasbro quarterly earning reports? I bet you'll find that information there. It's the benefit of publically traded companies. They often gove numbers like that for major units or divisions.

Funny thing about calling any of these "duds." These rankings, from the research I did in trying to see if you could get an estimate of sales from the sales rank, are a combination of monthly sales and daily sales. Based on my own observations, when you get into the thousands range the rank can...

I don't think anyone answered this yet, but all LLC means is that if you sue TSR for some reason, you can't sue board members for their personal finances. When I was in college, one of the groups I was a member of looked into what it would take because there was a slight chance that people could...

Because no one has ever had any issue with the DMCA when it comes to gaming. Your common sense is wrong here, especially in the US where they are instituting the CASE act, which was specifically established to make it easier for those who can't afford the federal court system to rectify piracy...

I used to do contract work for Wizards and Hasbro at conventions (~2006-2012), although we saw ourselves as much as volunteers who wanted to play games and show others what we liked about them. I worked one or more convention floors each year depending on my availability and what WOTC needed...

That unfortunately is wrong with respect to intellectual property law in the US at least. Concerning copyright, you can be sued for statutory damages if material is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, even if you sell nothing. For trademark, there's such a thing as dilution and companies...

No way. While it's hard to know how much it cost to develop a game, other MMOs cost several million at a minimum to develop, let alone maintain. I've posted an article with some figures. At best, and if it was done cheaper than other games, that money funded development. Subscriptions or in game...

After I started playing when I was in elementary school back in the early 80s, I joined the D&D club at the local library where I played and DMed. The organizer had no problem with us bringing in our own characters from other games mainly because we didn't have ongoing campaigns or time to do...

I don't like using these rankings to judge a product's health because it tells you nothing other than how one product is doing relative to another. That said, I will note that there have been several Pathfinder boosters who point to this as their go to metric over things lile Amazon rankings. If...

From my firsthand knowledge of the U.S. Copyright Office and how copyright registration works (note: I am not a lawyer so please don't use this as legal advice!) this is not quite correct. Some logos qualify for copyright protection, but others do not because they are not sufficiently creative...

What you say here - which no way reflects anything they have said or claimed - would be very bad marketing if it happens. When it comes to advertising, people naturally assume the image they see is similar to what they will get, especially as every pic of the dice on the KS looks like this. If...

I also don't think you can definitively make a call from those numbers about the total number of players. However, I do think the Amazon numbers tell you how the "casual" players are picking up the game. To me, this person is someone who wants to try the game but doesn't want to spend a lot of...

There's a lot of speculation here based on your over reliance of the subreddit as your source of information. As someone who has to look at survey data for a living, relying on message boards is very problematic. It's a piece of information, like any social media site, but it can't be used...

Yes, in the last month or so it's fluctuated a lot, but never higher than the 7000s and sometimes into the 13000s. It's at the point where slight changes in sales could make it go up and down several thousand ranks. We can definitely say there's a decline evident on Amazon based on where it was...

0.6% growth for PF2 vs. 0.62% decline for PF1 seems about the same to me, which is better news for the company. Otherwise, it could be a sign the brand is losing market share. Did Roll20 release total number of players on the site so we know how many players any percentage represents or how the...

I don't think that is what we are seeing. I think we saw a dip because of the pandemic, but the recent bump I bet reflects the built up demand that was released after shelter in place orders started being lifted and stores could order and replenish stock. The numbers are droppimg again back...

Thank you! I was using the Sales Rank Express to track weekly sales rank for a publisher, but a change in Amazon's algorithm before recent events just killed the tracker. Unless they find the timeto invest in an update, that is gone. This is cool. It'll be fun to compare it with Amazon Book...

I do look at the estimated sales from the rank, and in some ways you're right. By this one calculator I use, any given rank gives you a certain sales per day and sales per month (not the same since Amazon rank weighs daily sales morr than monthly). And you're right that the absolute number isn't...