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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4879753" data-attributes="member: 2525">Wait.&nbsp; Lets be very clear.&nbsp; No, I am not making any such claim.&nbsp; I am not entitled to the information, and I have never said or implied in any way that I think I am entitled to it.&nbsp; I said I would like to know it, as would some others.&nbsp; That's it.I understand you wrote &quot;with all due respect&quot;, but I don't understand how you could follow it with that entitlement claim.&nbsp; That sure looked like the throwing of a bomb. Do you have anything to support your claim that I stated some entitlement?Nope.&nbsp; I understand all of that just fine.&nbsp; I own a business that is larger than Paizo.&nbsp; I think it's kinda demeaning to imply that people here don't have enough knowledge to comprehend the ramifications of a a hypothetical scenario where knowing the firm number as opposed to the soft number for a particular print run of an RPG book would help or hurt someone.You tell me a scenario where announcing this data point could hurt them or help someone else.&nbsp; Give it a try.&nbsp; If all of those concepts are an important factor, it should be relatively simply for you to take a single one and offer an example.&nbsp; I suspect you won't though, because knowing this data does not realistically actually involve any of that.&nbsp; Knowing a firm number will not influence supply and demand for example.&nbsp; People just assume it must be important to some sort of economics concept and out of tradition they never announce a number.&nbsp; But for particular events, usually there is no harm at all in announcing a number.&nbsp; Which is why, eventually, many companies started to announce numbers through large distribution chains.&nbsp; And low and behold, nothing bad ever happened, because there never was even a hypothetical scenario where knowing the precise number could cause a harm to the company or give a competitor an advantage.Not in the least.&nbsp; Are you beginning to see how positing vague economics concepts is not helpful for this context?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 4879753, member: 2525"] Wait. Lets be very clear. No, I am not making any such claim. I am not entitled to the information, and I have never said or implied in any way that I think I am entitled to it. I said I would like to know it, as would some others. That's it. I understand you wrote "with all due respect", but I don't understand how you could follow it with that entitlement claim. That sure looked like the throwing of a bomb. Do you have anything to support your claim that I stated some entitlement? Nope. I understand all of that just fine. I own a business that is larger than Paizo. I think it's kinda demeaning to imply that people here don't have enough knowledge to comprehend the ramifications of a a hypothetical scenario where knowing the firm number as opposed to the soft number for a particular print run of an RPG book would help or hurt someone. You tell me a scenario where announcing this data point could hurt them or help someone else. Give it a try. If all of those concepts are an important factor, it should be relatively simply for you to take a single one and offer an example. I suspect you won't though, because knowing this data does not realistically actually involve any of that. Knowing a firm number will not influence supply and demand for example. People just assume it must be important to some sort of economics concept and out of tradition they never announce a number. But for particular events, usually there is no harm at all in announcing a number. Which is why, eventually, many companies started to announce numbers through large distribution chains. And low and behold, nothing bad ever happened, because there never was even a hypothetical scenario where knowing the precise number could cause a harm to the company or give a competitor an advantage. Not in the least. Are you beginning to see how positing vague economics concepts is not helpful for this context? [/QUOTE]

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