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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 5649019" data-attributes="member: 4348">True, But the SC and other games based off of the blizzard franchise are sold in the mainstream bookstores and on Blizzard's own website (that's at least 8 million people that could browse that!).  I expect that while there are good sales in Europe, the sales of blizzard games in Korea are pretty high (though you know what they say about Assumptions!).  I'm thinking that may be offset by the new SW license though, at least I'm betting FFG is hoping that's the case.I'd wager the Blizzard licensed games sell more then Dominion, probably not more then Carc though, at least individually (though WoW may be high, hard to say without knowing how popular the boardgame for that MMORP is in Korea).  Korea is the crazy place where they even have a cereal with Starcraft on it and they eat it!Unless Rio Grande has expanded, they'd have to be rolling in money with the guy doing all the work running in the top 500 on Forbes for how much money he makes to actually be in the competing with FFG (though maybe he is, it only takes a couple million for him to get there).FFG made 12.9 mil in 2009, and with it increasing notably each year (they had 4.7 in 2005 and that's when I think they were noted originally to be the 5the largest boardgame company in the world, I wouldn't think it would be too hard for them to easily have surpassed 13 million last year, maybe even the 14 or 15 million mark).I can't find Rio Grande on the 500 list though, FFg was 1832.  It's only for Inc. companies though, so RG may not qualify, don't know if RG is inc. or not.</blockquote>

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