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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5338408" data-attributes="member: 20741">I'm not too sure this adds anything from what Paizo telegraphed at this past Gencon.We knew then they were in advanced planning stages for an intro set. By which they were understood to mean that "Yes -- we really are going to do this but we don't really yet know what form the package will be or what will be in it." Nothing has changed in the intervening two months, except that "Yes, when we said we really are going to do this, we really meant it. But we still don't know what is going to be in it or what packaging form it will take". I don't expect that I will purchase the product, other than to perhaps give one to my 11 year old son (and even then - I'm not sure exactly why I would do that *shrug*).I think that we should all accept that we are not the target audience for this product, but that the product should aid and assist Paizo in broadening the reach of the game and in their marketing efforts to obtain new players. If it works -- great. If it doesn't, I hope that Paizo does not lose money on the product.  That would not be a good thing.Perhaps the best thing Paizo could do is offer some very interesting map in that box which is of high quality and is an exclusive. Something that is available nowhere else and which frankly, can't be very effectively pirated via .pdf. That approach would ensure that the product will ALSO be purchased by a portion of Paizo's existing fanbase, such that there will be a significant portion of hardcore subscribers and other fans of the game who will purchase it immediately upon release to defray the mftring costs and make the cost of carrying this inventory more palatable if it is not as successful as Paizo hopes it will be. Given the elevated costs for the REST of the package, it will not attract interest from every Pathfinder /Golarion GM. But it will attract interest from the hardcore among them -- and that's the point of bundling such a map with the box. This would go some way towards ensuring that Paizo will not take a major hit on the product if it fails among non-fans of the game and will allow Paizo to recover most of its manufacturing costs via the subscriber base on product ship -- or at the least, put a sizeable dent in that "cost of goods sold".I would suggest Paizo put a 32 panel world map of Golarion  in that box (as distinct from a map of the Inner Sea region).  That would go a long way towards covering their bets and ensuring that a well-intended product does no harm to the company in the event a worst case scenario comes to pass.Otherwise, this could be the most expensive product that Paizo manufactures -- and far worse -- one where the subscriber base which usually allows Paizo to recover most of its upfront mftring costs out of the gate  won't be there to defray those costs from the get-go.Call it a prudent investment in strategic product bundling, if you will.</blockquote>

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