Paizo Price of Paizo PDFs goes up in 10 days

[djotaku]

Don't the reasons they claim for the price increase on some books also logically apply to the PDFs that aren't going up?

Two non mutually exclusive things could be going on there. 1) The stuff where the price isn't going up already has high margins built in. (Kind of how restaurants make the most money on alcoholic drinks, not food) 2) The stuff that's going up is subsidizing the stuff that isn't going up. That is to say that Paizo expects they'll sell more rulebooks than 64 Page adventures. So they can charge more for those to keep the price lower on the 64 page adventures - maybe even at a loss. (Back in the day Best Buy would sell CDs at a loss to get you in the door to buy the stuff they knew they'd make money on)

 

[Micah Sweet]

Two non mutually exclusive things could be going on there. 1) The stuff where the price isn't going up already has high margins built in. (Kind of how restaurants make the most money on alcoholic drinks, not food) 2) The stuff that's going up is subsidizing the stuff that isn't going up. That is to say that Paizo expects they'll sell more rulebooks than 64 Page adventures. So they can charge more for those to keep the price lower on the 64 page adventures - maybe even at a loss. (Back in the day Best Buy would sell CDs at a loss to get you in the door to buy the stuff they knew they'd make money on)

How very corporate of them. You'd think they had shareholders to look after.