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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 950268" data-attributes="member: 8158">Re: Re: Re: Re: Flying off the shelves!More details please. When a person walks into an LGS and buys a gaming product, how are these sales figures able to measure how active he is in the online gaming community? Or are you referring only to some highly-specific sales figures, like those of ENWorld's? If so, that  begs the question of how accurately those figures represent the "average" ENWorlder, who may well be directing his or her buying power elsewhere. Much as I hate to say it, I've never purchased anything from ENWorld. Yes, we're more informed and more opinionated but neither of those things comprise a huge fundamental difference between myself and the other eight or so people who are in my gaming group. We go to the same movies together, eat the same junk food, discuss the same politics. I think I speak for them pretty well, thank ya very much.Then again, if you're only looking at sales figures, then you're saying that in terms of representing the "average" gamer, the only similarities or differences of significance are those that concern how we spend our monies. Well, fair enough. Looking at things from that perspective, the first thing that occurs to me is that the position that you and Crothian are taking assumes that the informed, diehard gamers are living on a dead end street. We're just a small group of folks living in a vacum inbreeding with each other; we don't interact or disseminate information and opinions with the rest of the gaming community. Or maybe that the rest of the gaming community doesn't listen. Whatever your working theory is, speaking for myself none of that's the case. Since I'm perceived as the most well-informed player in our group, the rest of them ask me all the time what I thought about some book they saw on the shelf at the LGS, or whether or not there's a book coming out about such-and-such, or whether or not the 3.5e books are just a money-making scam. Happens all the time, and I bet many others here could say the same. Out of touch with the average gamer? Hardly. We're not in separate camps. Probably the main difference between myself and the less-diehard gamers is simply that they don't spend as much money on gaming products as I do. If anything, that difference increases the significance of ENWorlders as representatives of the gaming community. It certainly doesn't diminish it--especially if you're using sales figures as the basis of your assessment.</blockquote>

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