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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3992420" data-attributes="member: 18">No, you're not.This is the classic &quot;Fan's delusion&quot;. Serious fans worthy of the term (i.e. fanatics) always believe that it's due to a core a &quot;hardcore fans&quot; that a setting/film/P&amp;P RPG/MMORPG/band/whatever is keeping it &quot;alive and popular&quot;. In a word, it's nonsense, unless you're talking about something super-undergound. The casual &quot;fans&quot;, the people who buy the books but don't know the setting backwards, the people who drift in and out of the FR represents that VAST MAJORITY of the sales, not the Candlekeep-reading FR psychos who can tell you what Elminster had for breakfast last tuesday.Most hilariously I saw this claim recently from hardcore raiding WoW players, that they were keeping the game &quot;alive and popular&quot;. Yeah, right, 9.5 million players and it's the less than 5% who are keeing it &quot;alive and popular&quot;. I imagine the percentage figure is similar here. You buying every FR product available is less important and the ten or so people who buy a handful of products every year.PS - IconoclastX, what a name, any relation to Demonius X? Hehehehehe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 3992420, member: 18"] No, you're not. This is the classic "Fan's delusion". Serious fans worthy of the term (i.e. fanatics) always believe that it's due to a core a "hardcore fans" that a setting/film/P&P RPG/MMORPG/band/whatever is keeping it "alive and popular". In a word, it's nonsense, unless you're talking about something super-undergound. The casual "fans", the people who buy the books but don't know the setting backwards, the people who drift in and out of the FR represents that VAST MAJORITY of the sales, not the Candlekeep-reading FR psychos who can tell you what Elminster had for breakfast last tuesday. Most hilariously I saw this claim recently from hardcore raiding WoW players, that they were keeping the game "alive and popular". Yeah, right, 9.5 million players and it's the less than 5% who are keeing it "alive and popular". I imagine the percentage figure is similar here. You buying every FR product available is less important and the ten or so people who buy a handful of products every year. PS - IconoclastX, what a name, any relation to Demonius X? Hehehehehe. [/QUOTE]

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