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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8479705" data-attributes="member: 7808"><p>One element of all this that I find confusing is the Star Frontiers: New Genesis release. For those that don't know, Michael announced that the first printing of this went on sale at the brick-and-mortar store/museum on 10/13 and immediately sold out. It went straight from being "coming soon" to "sold out" on the website. Michael also refused to answer questions about how many copies were sold, and TSR has never commented on things like page length, authors, ISBN, or any other details about the book. This lead to some people questioning whether it was real. TSR responded to those rumors by adding some photos on their website. The pics show a really short, spiral bound book like you could get made at Staples.</p><p></p><p>So... why? They already had a warning from WotC telling them not to do it. If WotC takes them to court, they'll be forced to release details about the sale. It couldn't have been a big enough sale (in person, in one night) to make a significant amount of money. TSR has been asked before and after this happened about upcoming releases, yet they never hyped the SFNG sale or gave a date for a second print run. The book is incredibly unprofessional looking; there's no reason to think that a re-print would require more than a trip to OfficeMax.</p><p></p><p>I just don't get it. The best I can figure is that they were intentionally poking at WotC to see how they would respond. Maybe they wanted to goad WotC into taking more legal action, or were hoping for a Streisand effect? Are they just trying increase perceived scarcity to help sales of the next release? That seems unlikely, since they've done so little other work promoting it. Or maybe they had a contractual agreement with a (so far, unnamed) author that required a release by a certain date?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 8479705, member: 7808"] One element of all this that I find confusing is the Star Frontiers: New Genesis release. For those that don't know, Michael announced that the first printing of this went on sale at the brick-and-mortar store/museum on 10/13 and immediately sold out. It went straight from being "coming soon" to "sold out" on the website. Michael also refused to answer questions about how many copies were sold, and TSR has never commented on things like page length, authors, ISBN, or any other details about the book. This lead to some people questioning whether it was real. TSR responded to those rumors by adding some photos on their website. The pics show a really short, spiral bound book like you could get made at Staples. So... why? They already had a warning from WotC telling them not to do it. If WotC takes them to court, they'll be forced to release details about the sale. It couldn't have been a big enough sale (in person, in one night) to make a significant amount of money. TSR has been asked before and after this happened about upcoming releases, yet they never hyped the SFNG sale or gave a date for a second print run. The book is incredibly unprofessional looking; there's no reason to think that a re-print would require more than a trip to OfficeMax. I just don't get it. The best I can figure is that they were intentionally poking at WotC to see how they would respond. Maybe they wanted to goad WotC into taking more legal action, or were hoping for a Streisand effect? Are they just trying increase perceived scarcity to help sales of the next release? That seems unlikely, since they've done so little other work promoting it. Or maybe they had a contractual agreement with a (so far, unnamed) author that required a release by a certain date? [/QUOTE]
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