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<blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 2514519" data-attributes="member: 2477">See, the thing is, according to most of the publishers after the initial rush, sales drop to a trickle. Sales will probably have small spikes later on, such as when a new product releases that requires the initial product, but otherwise it's gone.Couple that with the total lack of support for most older books, and it's why I think 3.5 hurting their backstock is silly. How many publishers have been asked for 3.5 updates for older products and replied that it's not worth it to have folks to free updates for products that aren't selling, vs creating new product that folks will need to buy?If the old product sells so badly that it's not worth supporting it, then it's probably not worth purchasing.I stopped buying a lot of third party stuff because it simply wasn't useful to me. I've gotten more use out of the Freeport trilogy than any of GR's race books for instance. 3.5 had nothing to do with it (though it's one of the marks I hold against Malhavok stuff, that they charged a couple dollars for PDF updates to 3.5, too small of money to justify their charging, and charging at all detracts from the effort. IMO.) and a lot of the companies (GR included) could have used the oppurtunity to touch up the mechanics as they updated to 3.5 (as WotC themselves did with some PrC's, feats and spells in follow up books.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vocenoctum, post: 2514519, member: 2477"] See, the thing is, according to most of the publishers after the initial rush, sales drop to a trickle. Sales will probably have small spikes later on, such as when a new product releases that requires the initial product, but otherwise it's gone. Couple that with the total lack of support for most older books, and it's why I think 3.5 hurting their backstock is silly. How many publishers have been asked for 3.5 updates for older products and replied that it's not worth it to have folks to free updates for products that aren't selling, vs creating new product that folks will need to buy? If the old product sells so badly that it's not worth supporting it, then it's probably not worth purchasing. I stopped buying a lot of third party stuff because it simply wasn't useful to me. I've gotten more use out of the Freeport trilogy than any of GR's race books for instance. 3.5 had nothing to do with it (though it's one of the marks I hold against Malhavok stuff, that they charged a couple dollars for PDF updates to 3.5, too small of money to justify their charging, and charging at all detracts from the effort. IMO.) and a lot of the companies (GR included) could have used the oppurtunity to touch up the mechanics as they updated to 3.5 (as WotC themselves did with some PrC's, feats and spells in follow up books.) [/QUOTE]

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