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<blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5894033" data-attributes="member: 98255"><p>These sales analyses and trying to compare D&D and PF seem pretty futile to me. It's very much an Apples and Oranges situation - yes, they're both fantasy RPGs competing in the same market - however, they're doing so in completely different environments.</p><p></p><p>Pathfinder is being marketed by a small company, who answer to noone but themselves, while D&D is being marketed by a multinational megacorporation that only cares about whether or not the line is meeting their targets. If their positions were reversed, do any of you <em>really </em>believe that PF would be able to hit the same lofty, and it has been suggested, unreachable goals? I really don't think it would.</p><p></p><p>If PF were making 50-million-plus in sales (that is one of the magic numbers that's been bandied about), I think Eric and co would be doing backflips down Main Street.</p><p></p><p>The RPG industry as a whole is probably bigger than that, but good luck capturing that much in sales to a single line. Maybe in better economic times The One Brand (whichever one that ends up being) could pull it off. Maybe. I think D&D could have been that brand, and I think it still can be. Only time will tell on that one.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, I don't *care* which game sells better. What I *do* care about is that the game I prefer remains available and in development. Under the current regime at Hasborg, that is in jeopardy. If D&D becomes extinct, and more specifically, the ideas of the current edition along with it, the RPG industry will move on, but ultimately, *I* lose. And really, if D&D as a brand goes away, we all do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nemesis Destiny, post: 5894033, member: 98255"] These sales analyses and trying to compare D&D and PF seem pretty futile to me. It's very much an Apples and Oranges situation - yes, they're both fantasy RPGs competing in the same market - however, they're doing so in completely different environments. Pathfinder is being marketed by a small company, who answer to noone but themselves, while D&D is being marketed by a multinational megacorporation that only cares about whether or not the line is meeting their targets. If their positions were reversed, do any of you [I]really [/I]believe that PF would be able to hit the same lofty, and it has been suggested, unreachable goals? I really don't think it would. If PF were making 50-million-plus in sales (that is one of the magic numbers that's been bandied about), I think Eric and co would be doing backflips down Main Street. The RPG industry as a whole is probably bigger than that, but good luck capturing that much in sales to a single line. Maybe in better economic times The One Brand (whichever one that ends up being) could pull it off. Maybe. I think D&D could have been that brand, and I think it still can be. Only time will tell on that one. At the end of the day, I don't *care* which game sells better. What I *do* care about is that the game I prefer remains available and in development. Under the current regime at Hasborg, that is in jeopardy. If D&D becomes extinct, and more specifically, the ideas of the current edition along with it, the RPG industry will move on, but ultimately, *I* lose. And really, if D&D as a brand goes away, we all do. [/QUOTE]
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