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<blockquote data-quote="NLP" data-source="post: 1147226" data-attributes="member: 520">I would also add that game prices have really seemed to escalate over the last 3 years. When 3E first came out everything was around $20.00. The 3 core books were $20.00, the follow up books were $20.00, and most of the support books published by third-party companies were around $20.00. 3 years later and now it is nearly impossible to find anything less than $30.00. Now granted maybe production quality has increased dramatically over the last 3 years, and maybe inflation has gone through the roof in the last 3 years, but it really does not seem to be the case to me. What I think we are seeing is a glut of publishers, and because of that smaller sales volumes per book. Because the publishers are no longer selling 20k of everything they are marking up the price of the books to maintain profitability on only 5-10k of sales. So instead of paying $25.00 for a book we are paying $32.00+. I have nothing against publishers making money, but if I am going to spend $75.00 a month on gaming material I would much rather support 2-3 game companies by buying 4-5 products then to have to spend that money on only 2 books. By not producing more $20.00 or less books the publishers are taking away any impulse sales, and thus potential new customers, because people are not going to throw away $35.00+ on a whim.As a consumer, I can only say that I really miss the gaming market from only 3 years ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NLP, post: 1147226, member: 520"] I would also add that game prices have really seemed to escalate over the last 3 years. When 3E first came out everything was around $20.00. The 3 core books were $20.00, the follow up books were $20.00, and most of the support books published by third-party companies were around $20.00. 3 years later and now it is nearly impossible to find anything less than $30.00. Now granted maybe production quality has increased dramatically over the last 3 years, and maybe inflation has gone through the roof in the last 3 years, but it really does not seem to be the case to me. What I think we are seeing is a glut of publishers, and because of that smaller sales volumes per book. Because the publishers are no longer selling 20k of everything they are marking up the price of the books to maintain profitability on only 5-10k of sales. So instead of paying $25.00 for a book we are paying $32.00+. I have nothing against publishers making money, but if I am going to spend $75.00 a month on gaming material I would much rather support 2-3 game companies by buying 4-5 products then to have to spend that money on only 2 books. By not producing more $20.00 or less books the publishers are taking away any impulse sales, and thus potential new customers, because people are not going to throw away $35.00+ on a whim. As a consumer, I can only say that I really miss the gaming market from only 3 years ago. [/QUOTE]

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