ICV2 numbers from GAMA are interesting

[Parmandur]

I think Cosmere, like the Avatar Last Airbender RPG, will be bought by a lot of fans, and some tiny fraction (~1%) of those purchasers who were non-RPG players before buying the book will actually try the game out.

Which is not nothing!

But I wouldn't expect it to dominate charts for long.

It is a very well designed game, with a large target Fandom, and the more popular and accessible Mistborn is about to drop along with the Open Gaming SRD...so don't count it out yet.

 

[Parmandur]

Stores are about selling now?

@pemerton to clarify, I was bemusedly stating thst stores need to be mindful of selling in the present time. Board games a re a fast moving industry in terms of what is fashionable, and store owners need to keep popular stuff in stock to compete with online purchases.

So I'm still not sure why a game would need to having staying power to be "counted" in an industry sales chart aimed at said business owners...

 

[pemerton]

@pemerton to clarify, I was bemusedly stating thst stores need to be mindful of selling in the present time. Board games a re a fast moving industry in terms of what is fashionable, and store owners need to keep popular stuff in stock to compete with online purchases.

So I'm still not sure why a game would need to having staying power to be "counted" in an industry sales chart aimed at said business owners...

Sorry, I didn't mean to sow confusion. My "shocked face" was intended in sympathy to your point.

 

[Parmandur]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sow confusion. My "shocked face" was intended in sympathy to your point.

Yeah, that makes yet still just reading my sentence I realized it was sort of potentially equivocal.

 

[zakael19]

Question, does anybody know if these numbers still exclude online/direct/amazon sales? From what I can see, as of 2023 they excluded everything but hobby store retail + KS $.