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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5469797" data-attributes="member: 59506"><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />LOL! Yeah. I understand the predicament for WotC. You're 100% correct that it's a bit of damned if you do, damned if you don't.</p><p> </p><p>But it doesn't change the facts that in order to generate buzz and excitement for your products, you first need to have products (a bit difficult with cancelling so many upcoming releases<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), you need to advertise them (which since we're talking about RPG's, that rules out most typical avenues, and requires easily accessed samples), and can't be limited to only the portion of your potential customer base that's already going to buy it anyways.</p><p> </p><p>If you do all of the above only where subscribers can see it, then you're limiting your potential customer base to only subscribers. Doesn't sound like a very sound marketing philosophy to me...</p><p> </p><p>If you want to win over customers and make money, then you have to get out there and <em>suffer the slings and arrows</em> that come with it. Or you can choose the quiet path and attempt to avoid such messy interactions...and slowly fade away as a result...<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></p><p> </p><p><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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 5469797, member: 59506"] :DLOL! Yeah. I understand the predicament for WotC. You're 100% correct that it's a bit of damned if you do, damned if you don't. But it doesn't change the facts that in order to generate buzz and excitement for your products, you first need to have products (a bit difficult with cancelling so many upcoming releases;)), you need to advertise them (which since we're talking about RPG's, that rules out most typical avenues, and requires easily accessed samples), and can't be limited to only the portion of your potential customer base that's already going to buy it anyways. If you do all of the above only where subscribers can see it, then you're limiting your potential customer base to only subscribers. Doesn't sound like a very sound marketing philosophy to me... If you want to win over customers and make money, then you have to get out there and [I]suffer the slings and arrows[/I] that come with it. Or you can choose the quiet path and attempt to avoid such messy interactions...and slowly fade away as a result...:hmm: :) [/QUOTE]
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