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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CSgeekHero" data-source="post: 2845060" data-attributes="member: 34454">Well, I never intended it to be taken as a barometer of sales. Dismissing it out of turn when it comes to popularity due to the fact that it is mostly boardgames is short-sighted. When I read Ken Hite's Out of the Box about the market share of different game companies then look at the mentioned list, there does appear to be a correlation in terms of popularity.Hmm, we seem to have a context disconnect here. The "most gamers don't stick with just one system" doesn't mean that I believed that they jump from system to system within one genre. For myself, and a few others I know, it is the idea of finding a system that they like for a particular genre and sticking with that system for that genre, then jumping systems for a different genre. For instance, someone might stick with Mutants and Masterminds for all their superhero gaming, but actually use HERO for pulp gaming. And so on. That is where it comes to stealing sales. I would never use d20 Modern/Future for a science fiction game. A hard sf game for me would feel best in GURPS, space opera style in HERO, Hard Nova][, or MnM depending on the level of crunch and tone of the campaign.  When it comes to fantasy it is either DnD or Fantasy HERO, depending upon the campaign. So, looking at it in that way the two statements aren't mutually incompatible.No offense meant to anyone.</blockquote>