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<blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6014077" data-attributes="member: 6670763">However, you have the other effect that third party books keep people being interested in the game at all and not just getting bored by it after two or three years and never looking at any books for the game again.Or you might have people who think, I would play the game, but I really wish it had a book dealing with X, otherwise I simply play a different game that does have X.In theory, good third party publications keep people interested in the game and new official books, even at times when there are no new official books released that are of interest to them.If that worked out to result in a net-profit for WotC in the long run is the real question, but there isn't any data on that at all. I don't think even at WotC they have any crude estimates for that.Though personally, I think it did help. I never cared for the Complete series or Eberron, but I was aware that they existed and also tried to keep up to date with any new announcements because there were such things like Iron Heroes and Midnight that made me care for d20 games. Also Star Wars Saga, which was published by WotC, but for the purpose of this effect would fall under d20-derivatives.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yora, post: 6014077, member: 6670763"] However, you have the other effect that third party books keep people being interested in the game at all and not just getting bored by it after two or three years and never looking at any books for the game again. Or you might have people who think, I would play the game, but I really wish it had a book dealing with X, otherwise I simply play a different game that does have X. In theory, good third party publications keep people interested in the game and new official books, even at times when there are no new official books released that are of interest to them. If that worked out to result in a net-profit for WotC in the long run is the real question, but there isn't any data on that at all. I don't think even at WotC they have any crude estimates for that. Though personally, I think it did help. I never cared for the Complete series or Eberron, but I was aware that they existed and also tried to keep up to date with any new announcements because there were such things like Iron Heroes and Midnight that made me care for d20 games. Also Star Wars Saga, which was published by WotC, but for the purpose of this effect would fall under d20-derivatives. [/QUOTE]

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