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<blockquote data-quote="Jor-El" data-source="post: 5299688" data-attributes="member: 93132">Not to derail, but on the subject of &quot;paying to demo&quot;, some buddies of mine tried to demo 4E at Gencon after being told it wasn't time for the Ravenloft Boardgame demos, but that they'd have to come back about an hour later when someone would be there to run the demo for them...and then told them they'd have to pay .25 each for character sheets in order to demo a game that WoTC would presumably want them to buy. &nbsp;Money wasn't an object, and .25 certainly wasn't an issue, but it was the principle of it. They walked away and never went back. &nbsp;Requiring players to buy something in order to demo a game you want them to start playing and buying other products for, seems like a somewhat &quot;poisonous&quot; marketing tactic. &nbsp;You know, &quot;catch more flies with honey&quot; and all that. &nbsp;The smarter thing would be to offer the card packs/character sheets/whatever for free. If the cost to do that is prohibitive, then I'd say they have bigger problems to worry about!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jor-El, post: 5299688, member: 93132"] Not to derail, but on the subject of "paying to demo", some buddies of mine tried to demo 4E at Gencon after being told it wasn't time for the Ravenloft Boardgame demos, but that they'd have to come back about an hour later when someone would be there to run the demo for them...and then told them they'd have to pay .25 each for character sheets in order to demo a game that WoTC would presumably want them to buy. Money wasn't an object, and .25 certainly wasn't an issue, but it was the principle of it. They walked away and never went back. Requiring players to buy something in order to demo a game you want them to start playing and buying other products for, seems like a somewhat "poisonous" marketing tactic. You know, "catch more flies with honey" and all that. The smarter thing would be to offer the card packs/character sheets/whatever for free. If the cost to do that is prohibitive, then I'd say they have bigger problems to worry about! [/QUOTE]

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