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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sammael" data-source="post: 4660785" data-attributes="member: 4475">Charles,While it's certainly not "easy" to figure out which items will sell, there is certainly a way to do it: pick a sample population of DDM buyers and non-buyers, get them to sign NDAs, show concept art to them and ask them to evaluate the minis for (1) desirability (2) aesthetic quality (3) price they would be willing to pay.This way, you would have a good heads up regarding the potential best-sellers and potential flops. Of course, for this research to be effective, sculpt and paint quality would have to follow the concept art quality. For some reason, this is often not the case with DDM.Before WotC canned Skirmish, they had another way of increasing mini desirability: good Skirmish stats. If they're on the fence about popularity of a certain mini, all they had to do is make sure Skirmishers would want it in large quantities. WotC certainly does have an agenda to push certain types of minis (and creatures) down our throats. Usually, they are somebody's pet creatures (like the Dragonspawn), and that person wants them to gain "traction." This simply doesn't work. There is a second agenda, which is to make highly desirable creatures (Dragonborn in 4E) rare, so people have to buy lots of boosters to get them. But this is typical for randomized collectable games, so I have no problem with it.</blockquote>