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No assumptions. I put "bad product" in quotes because the intent of my statement is a "bad product" is what the market defines it to be based on what people refuse to purchase. I was talking measurable outcomes and not subjectivity. Enjoy.

Understanding market segments is ALWAYS relevant if you're talking about how businesses succeed. Especially if your conversation is about how one business works one way and another works another way successfully. True. But my answer to those situations wouldn't be "that's not important". The...

No, I did. Because understanding how the market segments is important to knowing why and how particular products are succeeding while others are failing. Yep. Because people work for those companies, too. The largest share of the industry's market would seem to disagree with you based on where...

How do you figure? When I say "safer," I mean "hey, we're putting out a comic book game. What do people expect because what are they going to try playing?" Filling that need is knowing your market and has nothing inherently to do with quality unless your sole or primary definer is being edgy...

Nope. It's just accepting the fact that business growth is one of the riskiest things a business can undertake, and you don't always end up where you expect. See my latest response to James for further explanation.

I am quite happy with, and have never had any problems with either GR or EH products, so I'll just take your word for it. Yeah, I'll chalk that one up to taste. I'm not a fan of a lot of the art style I see in many LotFP products, for instance, but love a lot of the art I've seen in GR books...

And I get that. But you're forgeting factor Y: sales aren't likely to always cover Z once you've made that move and invested your company on that path, so you also need A, a cash reserve. Based on your previous post about not being able to pay everyone up front all the time, I'm going to assume...

Worse for creators? For sheert takeaway per word? Sure. I've previously said that. For customers? Well ... you're going to have to explain your reasoning there, just as I previously asked you to explain your "worse product" claim. Sure. But for someone who says "there are other models," do you...

I haven't moved goal posts. I've actually conceeded where you've made points. Your continuing inability to understand what I'm talking about, or refusal to see it as possible, does not a moved goalpost make. You are LITERALLY posting, time and again, just TWO options when you present examples...

And you understand those costs come out of somewhere, yes? As in you either need to ramp up sales to absorb the expenses in your margin, you need to cut back on what you're paying, or you need to put less into the business. You factually cannot increase layout without that money coming from...

Remember when I said you were stuck in a realm of binaries because your examples of business operations only present two possiblities? My point is that businesses of different scales of operations have different realties governing how they run. These logistical and financial facts are the things...

Except that both companies you keep using as your examples as "ethically and creatively bankrupt" have also won awards, are much loved by their customers, and also meet demand. But the demand is much larger because their businesses are operating at a level where the core market knows they even...

For the freelancers, I guess. Kinda sucks for everyone else. And since the RPG industry isn't sustanied by the freelancers alone (you know ... since they need the people who actually offer them the job opportunities just like the publishers need the people who fill them), well ... let's just...

Yes ... ... because, oddly, RPG publishers are not psychically able to predict the future and know with absolute certainty how well a product will do before placing an order with the printer. And they continue to store product to sell longitudinally to make up their expenses, even if only via...

Again ... is the owner also working another job? No? Good for him. Now, are you going to argue that is the standard in our industry? And I'm truly glad they can afford to pay more. But consider, given what I stated above and you ignored, that may be part of the reason why 99% of the RPG market...

The point is that business sustainment is a real thing that money must go into, more so when you don't have another job to support you. Green Ronin, as per your example, has a MUCH larger overhead than either Evil Hat or LotFP. And, although Green Ronin has full-time staff, I'd place safe money...

Production = product development and inventory output. They have a product catalog that is between 2x and 3x bigger than that of LotFP. Some is PDF but there's also a lot in (expensive quality, in my experience with their physical product) print. That requires money to sustain. That's a...

How do you figure? Evil Hat has between x2 to x3 the amount of products as LotFP, most of which (it looks to me) have much higher outlay. Sounds to me more like LotFP is channeling the money into the creatives rather than into product development. And don't get me wrong, that's fine. But if a...