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I just don't see why they even bothered with the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.
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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 6761105" data-attributes="member: 10738"><p>Also worth noting that many retailers, including some that make it easy to source (<a href="http://blackdiamondgames.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">like Black Diamond</a> who is very opinionated with data to back his position on KS vs. retail) do not like Kickstarters which impact their own sales. They very specifically point out that Kickstarter does cannibalize their potential sales, and makes stocking Kickstarter product a no-go for the store because their core customers have already gone off and backed the Kickstarter. By the time Kickstarters have gone in to distribution at the retail level they are usually already well in to their "long tail" of sales without even hitting the store shelves yet. I've spoken with four local store owners in NM and AZ who feel that it's pointless to compete with Kickstarter on these crowdfunded products, and only one store which does, but at a constant loss....and one of the owner's employees told me that there aren't enough "guys like me" who come in to their shop to justify the retailer backing so many Kickstarters, and the product just languishes on store shelves.</p><p></p><p>That last point hammers home something significant, I feel, about the Kickstarter market vs. the retail market: retail aims for the general crowd in a local area, and needs to offer the product most likely to be what they want. Kickstarter can focus nationally or internationally on extremely specific niche products which would never, ever succeed at the retail level but absolutely have enough fans over a wide enough range on the internet to become successful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doctor Futurity, post: 6761105, member: 10738"] Also worth noting that many retailers, including some that make it easy to source ([URL="http://blackdiamondgames.blogspot.com/"]like Black Diamond[/URL] who is very opinionated with data to back his position on KS vs. retail) do not like Kickstarters which impact their own sales. They very specifically point out that Kickstarter does cannibalize their potential sales, and makes stocking Kickstarter product a no-go for the store because their core customers have already gone off and backed the Kickstarter. By the time Kickstarters have gone in to distribution at the retail level they are usually already well in to their "long tail" of sales without even hitting the store shelves yet. I've spoken with four local store owners in NM and AZ who feel that it's pointless to compete with Kickstarter on these crowdfunded products, and only one store which does, but at a constant loss....and one of the owner's employees told me that there aren't enough "guys like me" who come in to their shop to justify the retailer backing so many Kickstarters, and the product just languishes on store shelves. That last point hammers home something significant, I feel, about the Kickstarter market vs. the retail market: retail aims for the general crowd in a local area, and needs to offer the product most likely to be what they want. Kickstarter can focus nationally or internationally on extremely specific niche products which would never, ever succeed at the retail level but absolutely have enough fans over a wide enough range on the internet to become successful. [/QUOTE]
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