Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 8931987" data-attributes="member: 56488">If I may have a go at my understanding of the argument, and while I can obviously follow my interpretation, doesn't mean I actually captured what they intended, but here goes:WOTC was previously selling say to 100k customers a year.&nbsp; Of those, 10% or 10k were buying 3PP products.&nbsp; If through people's unhappiness to this, they lost 50% of sales going forward, then it drops to 50k to WOTC, and maybe to 5k to 3PP as there is a smaller pool of people buying and playing (I don't necessarily think this follows, as could be 50k to WOTC, but still 10k buy 3PP products, I think truth will be somewhere in the middle).That drop of 10k to 5k would thus be causing harm to 3PP, which may not be covered by consumers going to other systems instead.If that 50k then went to 5 different alternative systems, then 3PP offerings for any particular system would have a smaller pool, and thus may not be sustainable for them anymore to produce, depending on if they need X sales for a given product (would be case for hard copies, but not so much digital I think), and overall may be less sales if can only cater to a few systems - e.g. if 30k when to fantasy systems, 20k to sci-fi or horror, then a fantasy offering would only be able to go to those 30k.Lots of ifs, buts and maybes in there really, and comes down to how many may leave WOTC in the first case, and how much bearing those customers leaving will have on 3PP sales upfront really, as to whether there would really be sufficient movement to harm 3PPs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gban007, post: 8931987, member: 56488"] If I may have a go at my understanding of the argument, and while I can obviously follow my interpretation, doesn't mean I actually captured what they intended, but here goes: WOTC was previously selling say to 100k customers a year. Of those, 10% or 10k were buying 3PP products. If through people's unhappiness to this, they lost 50% of sales going forward, then it drops to 50k to WOTC, and maybe to 5k to 3PP as there is a smaller pool of people buying and playing (I don't necessarily think this follows, as could be 50k to WOTC, but still 10k buy 3PP products, I think truth will be somewhere in the middle). That drop of 10k to 5k would thus be causing harm to 3PP, which may not be covered by consumers going to other systems instead. If that 50k then went to 5 different alternative systems, then 3PP offerings for any particular system would have a smaller pool, and thus may not be sustainable for them anymore to produce, depending on if they need X sales for a given product (would be case for hard copies, but not so much digital I think), and overall may be less sales if can only cater to a few systems - e.g. if 30k when to fantasy systems, 20k to sci-fi or horror, then a fantasy offering would only be able to go to those 30k. Lots of ifs, buts and maybes in there really, and comes down to how many may leave WOTC in the first case, and how much bearing those customers leaving will have on 3PP sales upfront really, as to whether there would really be sufficient movement to harm 3PPs. [/QUOTE]

Verification