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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5718213" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I thought I'd share some sales data. These are the number of units sold for our ZEITGEIST products, which are sold in 4E <em>and</em> Pathfinder versions. Some provisos:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">1) This is <strong>rpgnow.com only</strong>; I have not included Paizo.com sales data because we only have the Pathfinder version there which means it's not a like-for-like comparison. More importantly, it doesn't include EN World subscription data, which is by far the largest sales venue for these products. The data may therefore be skewed somewhat.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">2) This is the month of <strong>October 2011 only</strong>. It does not necessarily hold true in the future, or for previous months. Don't read <em>too</em> much into it.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">3) I have applied a constant divider to hide the true figures; the proportions are correct, because the exact same divider was applied to all of them, but I don't want to share actual sales figures, just ratios.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">4) Other than ZEITGEIST #2 (4E Version) which was released yesterday, none of the below products were released in the month reported; these were released three months ago. It is probably safe to discount ZEITGEIST #2 from the stats, since it's had one day of release compared to three months for the others, and is only so far available in one version.</p><p></p><p>ZEITGEIST #1: Island at the Axis of the World (4E) <span style="color: DarkGreen">51</span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST #1: Island at the Axis of the World (PATHFINDER) <span style="color: DarkGreen">70</span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST #2: The Dying Skyseer (4E) <span style="color: DarkGreen">36*</span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Campaign Guide (4E) <span style="color: DarkGreen">274 </span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Campaign Guide (PATHFINDER) <span style="color: DarkGreen">351</span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Intro (For Both Versions) <span style="color: DarkGreen">245 </span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Player's Guide (4E) <span style="color: DarkGreen">344</span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Player's Guide (PATHFINDER) <span style="color: DarkGreen">445</span> </p><p>Zeitgeist D&D 4th Edition and PATHFINDER Adventure Path Subscription <span style="color: DarkGreen">34</span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST Player Primer (D&D 4E Version) <span style="color: DarkGreen">194</span> </p><p>ZEITGEIST Player Primer (PATHFINDER RPG Version) <span style="color: DarkGreen">207</span> </p><p></p><p>*Note that the 4E version of this was released yesterday; the Pathfinder version isn't out yet.</p><p></p><p>I don't know how useful/interesting folks might find this. I'll post a comparison of EN World subscriber downlaod figures if I get time to compile them, and you can safely assume that paizo.com adds to the Pathfinder figures (but not the 4E figures - but then the 4E version isn't available there). It's posted as a comparative analysis of sales of the two systems with identical content; so make of it what you will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 5718213, member: 1"] I thought I'd share some sales data. These are the number of units sold for our ZEITGEIST products, which are sold in 4E [I]and[/I] Pathfinder versions. Some provisos: [INDENT]1) This is [B]rpgnow.com only[/B]; I have not included Paizo.com sales data because we only have the Pathfinder version there which means it's not a like-for-like comparison. More importantly, it doesn't include EN World subscription data, which is by far the largest sales venue for these products. The data may therefore be skewed somewhat. 2) This is the month of [B]October 2011 only[/B]. It does not necessarily hold true in the future, or for previous months. Don't read [I]too[/I] much into it. 3) I have applied a constant divider to hide the true figures; the proportions are correct, because the exact same divider was applied to all of them, but I don't want to share actual sales figures, just ratios. 4) Other than ZEITGEIST #2 (4E Version) which was released yesterday, none of the below products were released in the month reported; these were released three months ago. It is probably safe to discount ZEITGEIST #2 from the stats, since it's had one day of release compared to three months for the others, and is only so far available in one version.[/INDENT] ZEITGEIST #1: Island at the Axis of the World (4E) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]51[/COLOR] ZEITGEIST #1: Island at the Axis of the World (PATHFINDER) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]70[/COLOR] ZEITGEIST #2: The Dying Skyseer (4E) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]36*[/COLOR] ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Campaign Guide (4E) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]274 [/COLOR] ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Campaign Guide (PATHFINDER) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]351[/COLOR] ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Intro (For Both Versions) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]245 [/COLOR] ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Player's Guide (4E) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]344[/COLOR] ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Player's Guide (PATHFINDER) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]445[/COLOR] Zeitgeist D&D 4th Edition and PATHFINDER Adventure Path Subscription [COLOR="DarkGreen"]34[/COLOR] ZEITGEIST Player Primer (D&D 4E Version) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]194[/COLOR] ZEITGEIST Player Primer (PATHFINDER RPG Version) [COLOR="DarkGreen"]207[/COLOR] *Note that the 4E version of this was released yesterday; the Pathfinder version isn't out yet. I don't know how useful/interesting folks might find this. I'll post a comparison of EN World subscriber downlaod figures if I get time to compile them, and you can safely assume that paizo.com adds to the Pathfinder figures (but not the 4E figures - but then the 4E version isn't available there). It's posted as a comparative analysis of sales of the two systems with identical content; so make of it what you will. [/QUOTE]
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