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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frawan" data-source="post: 4149157" data-attributes="member: 57527">Actually I expect it to be bigger. Even if WoTC had been the ones putting out "alpha" rules, I would expect more people to eventually buy the final product. Not everyone are interested in looking at alpha or beta stuff, just as not everyone downloading the alpha will be buying. If you compare it to alpha and beta-tests in MMO's the result is the same: Did blizzards have 10 million in their open beta for WoW? Not even close. Do they have 10 million subscribers today? Yes. So 10.000 alpha downloads could certainly end up meaning 20.000 hardcopies sold, even though only say ½ of the alpha-downloaders will buy the books. Again: The "hardcore" gamers are only a minority when it comes to the gaming market in total, and the copies sold at gaming and book-stores to "casual" players probably account for just as many sold copies.</blockquote>