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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 1590993" data-attributes="member: 3087">There -are- other web sites out there. (RPG net, the Wizards Boards,etc) I know serious players (by which I mean people who purchase a book a month or so) who only go to those sites. I think the wizards boards are much bigger than En, not sure about the others.EnWorld can help a very small imprint get off the ground, other than that it has no impact*.For examplea)I expected that the guys who did Magical Mediveval society benifted a bit (Expedious Retreat?). One of the players in my group I thought of as having "hack and slash" tendencies recently got the print version of that product. I'm pretty sure the positive responce on the boards helped them get word of mouth, start their business and expand to a set of players they wouldn't have reached normally.B)Ditto Wulf's imprint, Of Sound Mind and maybe Hellhounds stuff when he started, etc..c)When Monte Cook launched Malhavoc postive press here and affection for him personally definitely (IMHO) had an impact. Now that he's grown? Nope. He does weight in and participate and so forth, but I'm under the impression that's mostly his marketing strategy.But other than that? Nope.Fast Forward has been routinely canned on the boards, the even the nice reviews struggle to find something good to say. While it may have had some small effect on their sales (when they went nuclear on Psion a while back) they are still churning out book after book so it can't have been siginificant.*= a segement of folks here are very good at processing rules and analyzing systems (and can write well). I'm pretty confident that the actual information content of critcisim here is often right. So a poorly written, unbalanced book may get a negative review from someone, and also sell poorly. But I doubt strongly that the review itself had much to do with the outcome.</blockquote>

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