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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WilliamAndersen" data-source="post: 2622275" data-attributes="member: 34885">Very insightful and well thought out post...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have also heard a lot of bigger publishers complain that the smaller publishers (which they often like to refer to as 'hobbyist', as if there is something wrong with being a hobbyist int he hobby industry) are taking sales and preventing the big publishers from making a good living doing this full time.The reality is, a  growing number of game designers and small publishers are being able to do this full time (perhaps different ones from who used to be able to, but there are still some).From personal experience, my little game company (which to the chagrin of some bigger publishers is built on the games first, and sales has been a secondary priority) has only been around since May.  In that time, we have gone to be #80 in sales (59 last month) on RPGNow.  As I looked thru various reports, there are a number of companies that are far more impressive in sales growth than us.We are going to be on the Edge, and we are okay with that... the truth of the matter is, there is a lot of very high quality material that is going to be on the Edge.  If some of the larger publishers do not want to compete with the smaller publishers, then that is fine and understandable.  I encourage you, however, to get 'into the game'... there is plenty of room, and as customers have experience on the Edge, they will find that to be the case.The earlier post that mentioned that people can shop on the featured site to avoid getting the 'gotcha' products is an unfortunate remark... there are many very good products that will be on the Edge (as James is saying), but it is an effective way to protect the larger publishers and keep them on RPGNow.WilliamComStar Media, LLC<a href="http://www.comstar-media.com" target="_blank">http://www.comstar-media.com</a><a href="http://www.comstar-games.com" target="_blank">http://www.comstar-games.com</a></blockquote>

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