Acquisitions Inc. switching to Daggerheart

[aramis erak]

On Amazon, Daggerheart's current Best Seller Rank is 5330.
This calculator estimates 625 sales per month for 5330.

That's just Amazon, and it's assorted included sellers.
I bought from Books-A-Million. (not a good purchase experience. Apparently it sold out while I was in the checkout process. Then they lied to me.)
There were other points of sale not included in Amazon's numbers, too.


DTRPG, as of now
Corebook PDF: Adamantine (>5000)
Nexus corebook version: Mithral (>2500)

So, in addition to physical, there's at least 5000 sales of the PDF, and between 2501 and 5000 inclusive in Nexus sales. DTRPG needs more levels...

 

[MacDhomnuill]

This all harkens back to one of the core problems in the entire industry, which is nobody with very few exceptions shares sales data. I really do hope that someday Darrington press in many of the other larger companies in the industry follow Steve Jackson Games, and just put the damn sales info out there. You have no advantage in hiding it.

 

[Parmandur]

This all Perkins back to one of the core problems in the entire industry, which is nobody with very few exception shares sales data. I really do hope that someday Darrington press in many of the other larger companies in the industry follow Steve Jackson Games, and just put the damn sales info out there. You have no advantage in hiding it.

I mean...they literally do have an advantage in hiding it.

 

[MacDhomnuill]

Enlighten me what possible advantages does a company create by hiding sales figures?

 

[Reynard]

Enlighten me what possible advantages does a company create by hiding sales figures?

Poor sales beget poor sales.

 

[SteveC]

Poor sales beget poor sales.

We have had multiple threads and thousands of posts about the good or bad sales for D&D. Other games have the same discussion at a much smaller scale. Do I care about it? Heck no! I regularly buy games where you might be talking dozens of sales. My local group says "you want to run what? Never heard of it. I'm there and bringing snacks." But that's not how many groups work.

 

[Reynard]

We have had multiple threads and thousands of posts about the good or bad sales for D&D. Other games have the same discussion at a much smaller scale. Do I care about it? Heck no! I regularly buy games where you might be talking dozens of sales. My local group says "you want to run what? Never heard of it. I'm there and bringing snacks." But that's not how many groups work.

Unfortunately, people often correlate sales with quality, so they do things liek scroll right past books on DTRPG without "[blank] best seller" tags and so on. It even affects D&D -- remember when some YTer claimed D&D 2024 only sold 1000 copies or something and people used it as evidence that it was bad*? They also do the opposite -- assuming something must must be quality if it sold a lot of copies.

*it is bad, but not for that reason.

 

[Parmandur]

Enlighten me what possible advantages does a company create by hiding sales figures?

Any market information is potentially beneficial proprietary information: know what products sell can be an edge over competitors in developing selling more new products.

Game companies are trying to make money, not advance the general knowledge of humankind.

 

[Agamon]

There aren't too many consumer items where sales figures are shared. Sales figures are for publicly traded companies.

 

[Scribe]

Enlighten me what possible advantages does a company create by hiding sales figures?

"Only sold X books? Dead game, no thanks."