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<blockquote data-quote="Giltonio_Santos" data-source="post: 6276598" data-attributes="member: 36874"><p>Maybe we should just recognize that the size of our market is more akin to the market of academic textbooks, not Harry Potter. What I wanted to point with my post is that RPG books are very cheap when compared to a different niche market that I also get the chance to analyze, and their quality is miles above (I don't have richly illustrated full color textbooks). While I know there's no perfect comparison, comparing with a mass market bestseller is absurd.</p><p></p><p>To me, the moment we see some very accomplished game designers recognizing that they must have dayjobs, otherwise they won't be able to pay their expenses, it's the moment to realize that we're certainly not paying enough. Another possibility would be to recognize that their product is not good enough to the market they want to reach, but I don't think this is the case.</p><p></p><p>I cannot analyze that as a US issue because I don't live there, but I see the same pattern in Brazil, of people saying RPG books are expensive when, in reality, they are cheaper than other books made for niche markets, books that actually fail to reach the same quality standards we came to expect in RPG books. In fact, Brazilian case is worse, because academic textbooks here actually sell <em>more</em> than RPGs...</p><p></p><p>In short, the next time you ask yourself why your favorite RPG line was discontinued, why your favorite designer is now doing video-games, why the White Wolf guys are almost in kickstarter-mode or why WotC resells core rulebooks every four years, consider the fact that maybe you're not paying enough for the content you get. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Cheers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Giltonio_Santos, post: 6276598, member: 36874"] Maybe we should just recognize that the size of our market is more akin to the market of academic textbooks, not Harry Potter. What I wanted to point with my post is that RPG books are very cheap when compared to a different niche market that I also get the chance to analyze, and their quality is miles above (I don't have richly illustrated full color textbooks). While I know there's no perfect comparison, comparing with a mass market bestseller is absurd. To me, the moment we see some very accomplished game designers recognizing that they must have dayjobs, otherwise they won't be able to pay their expenses, it's the moment to realize that we're certainly not paying enough. Another possibility would be to recognize that their product is not good enough to the market they want to reach, but I don't think this is the case. I cannot analyze that as a US issue because I don't live there, but I see the same pattern in Brazil, of people saying RPG books are expensive when, in reality, they are cheaper than other books made for niche markets, books that actually fail to reach the same quality standards we came to expect in RPG books. In fact, Brazilian case is worse, because academic textbooks here actually sell [I]more[/I] than RPGs... In short, the next time you ask yourself why your favorite RPG line was discontinued, why your favorite designer is now doing video-games, why the White Wolf guys are almost in kickstarter-mode or why WotC resells core rulebooks every four years, consider the fact that maybe you're not paying enough for the content you get. ;) Cheers! [/QUOTE]
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