SolitonMan said:
IIRC the pre-release price was about $36 for the subscription. Which works out to an overly generous $3 an adventure, which is pretty low by any current standards. If (hopefully when!) you decide to do a 4e AP, I'd suggest looking at a print price in the $20-25 range, and maybe $12-15 for the pdf on an adventure by adventure basis. Subscriptions could then go for around $100, or about $8 an adventure, which would still be a great deal. Just my opinion, but if the market would support it, it might be a more reliably sustainable cost structure.
That's certainly a valid suggestion and opinion and, if successful, would presumably fund a series pretty well.
It would place individual EN Publishing releases in the same ballpark as Paizo
Pathfinder. That would raise a certain expectation as to the level of quality and extra support included. I wonder, though I have no personal knowledge either way, how well those are selling to new customers, as opposed to converting
Dungeon subscriptions.
I'm not aware of any other adventure path subscription selling at $100+.
I'm very doubtful that I would buy multiple PDF adventures at $12-15 each. I haven't bought any
Pathfinders, though I've considered it, and don't recall dropping this much on any other single adventure. I wouldn't consider a subscription at that price. But, by all means, 2009 will be a new year and a different market and my preferences may easily not be representative.
SolitonMan said:
I'm sorry to hear about the financial problems, that totally sucks. The quality of the adventures is awesome, so I'm not sure about the motivation behind stopping purchasing...unless it's a budget issue, and folks are trying to start saving up for 4e supplies.
Not to get off topic, but did this 80% drop in purchasing coincide at all with the RPGNow-DriveThru site amalgamation? I can't speak for anyone else, but I was physically unable to buy from the site for two months and only resolved it by contacting Customer Service, after two e-mails to the webmaster received no response. I'm only one customer, but I would assume other people had similar problems (in fact, I know this from the CS reply) and many people would not be as motivated as I was to fix it. EN Publishing may simply have lost a certain number of customers, and may never get them back, due to technical failure.
