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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6225666" data-attributes="member: 7006">The difference though is that because Pathfinder is not as ubiquitous as Dungeons & Dragons... they sell more core rulebooks each year because they started from such low sales to begin with.  Nobody outside the RPG community knows about the game, so their PR to get their name out there is doing its job to make it more well known so that they can sell books.But Dungeons & Dragons?  As soon as the PR starts and says "New edition goes on sale July 1st!"... everybody within the community and even large swathes of people outside the community know about it.  Which is why they sell so many of the core game off the top in that first year, and why each year drops off from that point.  I mean... the 4th edition of D&D was mentioned on The Colbert Report as getting released, which is an indication of just how much the game's name is out there, and how much press it can get in mainstream media.  And that kind of blanketing of the landscape is what causes the avalanche of sales for D&D in Year One, but also thereby assuring them that they aren't going to be able to sustain that level in Year Two, despite perhaps their wish to do so.  Everyone's buying the game right off the bat.Pathfinder is a small, indy film that has built up their word-of-mouth, adding additional screens each and every week until it finally reaches quite substantial profits after several months of release.  D&D is the Hollywood blockbuster that is going to get a huge opening weekend, but see its money drop by 60% in week two.  That's just the way these two games are, and there's not much either company can do about it.</blockquote>

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