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<blockquote data-quote="TrainedMunkee" data-source="post: 4116603" data-attributes="member: 42904"><p><strong>Economic Realities</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>They would sell a lot more by dividing the book up into three parts at a lower price. There might be a niche for a fifty dollar book, but TSR stumbled upon marketing magic with the three book model. In theory five players only have to buy one book at half of the fifty dollar price. The fifty dollar price is a large stumbling block to the success of Paizo's RPG. The turn around on a RPG book is huge, hence the 2009 date. They can't possibly be competing with 4e at this point, they would be way behind in the market. They will be competing with Green Ronin for the d20 market. They will be selling to a niche market. They can't be expecting a huge amount of sales this way. The price on the book will have to be high just to meet the costs. I can draw out the curve if you want. They can do two things</p><p></p><p>1) not put all their eggs in one basket, still make a profit off of WoTC, I have a feeling WoTC is going to make this harder, their right.</p><p></p><p>2) try to get their RPG into the big chains Borders, Barnes & Nobles etc. push to advertise, including libraries, there are a lot of libraries in the east with money to spend, my wife is a librarian and I run games at the local libraries</p><p></p><p>Paizo will never be an equal of WoTC, that is just reality. Another reality is that the US has less money to spend than it did in the d20 boom. </p><p></p><p>WoTC has put Paizo in a hard place. Paizo has some smart people running their company, these moves prove that. Heck, they bought pizza for the staff, good morale booster and great management. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Did you guys get beer too? I hear they have champagne on the boards. Paizo will be fine.</p><p></p><p>Peace Space</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TrainedMunkee, post: 4116603, member: 42904"] [b]Economic Realities[/b] They would sell a lot more by dividing the book up into three parts at a lower price. There might be a niche for a fifty dollar book, but TSR stumbled upon marketing magic with the three book model. In theory five players only have to buy one book at half of the fifty dollar price. The fifty dollar price is a large stumbling block to the success of Paizo's RPG. The turn around on a RPG book is huge, hence the 2009 date. They can't possibly be competing with 4e at this point, they would be way behind in the market. They will be competing with Green Ronin for the d20 market. They will be selling to a niche market. They can't be expecting a huge amount of sales this way. The price on the book will have to be high just to meet the costs. I can draw out the curve if you want. They can do two things 1) not put all their eggs in one basket, still make a profit off of WoTC, I have a feeling WoTC is going to make this harder, their right. 2) try to get their RPG into the big chains Borders, Barnes & Nobles etc. push to advertise, including libraries, there are a lot of libraries in the east with money to spend, my wife is a librarian and I run games at the local libraries Paizo will never be an equal of WoTC, that is just reality. Another reality is that the US has less money to spend than it did in the d20 boom. WoTC has put Paizo in a hard place. Paizo has some smart people running their company, these moves prove that. Heck, they bought pizza for the staff, good morale booster and great management. :D Did you guys get beer too? I hear they have champagne on the boards. Paizo will be fine. Peace Space [/QUOTE]
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