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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7666198" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>Well, there's going to be some audience overlap, as Wheaton was on both. And the Penny Arcade guys were on Tabletop at least once. So I don't think you can say the levels of penetration varies much between the two. </p><p></p><p>But Tabletop is the product. People are watching for that show. Not all of the 400k are interested or the audience of any game. The 400k+ (sometimes much higher) who watched the D&D podcasts all did so because they were interested. </p><p>And we've yet to see numbers for the RPG show to see if it's higher or lower.</p><p></p><p>And the DragonAge episode of Tabletop (Jan 2013, with some pretty staggering viewer numbers) didn't help DragoAge stay in the ICv2 charts, and it vanished in late 2012 never to be seen again.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, 400k are willing to watch Tabletop for free, but when they asked for money, only 20k actually backed the Indiegogo. Far more people are willing to pay to go to a PAX, let alone the PAXes combined.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's still the equivalent of stunt casting. Wheaton has similar name value to the guy who played Harry Kim on Voyager. If it wasn't for Big Bang Theory, his name would be followed by a "who?" </p><p>You know who would have been a bigger name to get? Anybody. They could have hired a Wayan brother and it'd be as big of news. (Although I'm much more comfortable with the quality with Wil in charge.) </p><p></p><p></p><p>I guess expectations are part of the problem. When Green Ronin was being cagey about the setting for their system, I wondered if they had licenced something from WotC and were going to announce Dark Sun or Dragonlance or something. Of if they'd tapped Keith Baker or Ed Greenwood to make the world. (Or both.)</p><p>But, really, I doubt any of those could compete with DragonAge. This news just means sales of the AGE system won't be lower than sales for the DA RPG. In the same way Margaret Weis Productions does excellent sales for its various Cortex system games (Firefly, Leverage, Marvel) but the actual generic Cortex system is forgotten. DA has pretty much passed D&D as a big name in modern fantasy, being close to Tolkien and Game of Thrones. More people are familiar with Thedas than some D&D worlds. Sales for D&D books are measured in hundreds of thousands, while sales for DA games are measured in millions. After all, the biggest RPG news of 2014 was not the release of 5e but the release of Inquisition...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7666198, member: 37579"] Well, there's going to be some audience overlap, as Wheaton was on both. And the Penny Arcade guys were on Tabletop at least once. So I don't think you can say the levels of penetration varies much between the two. But Tabletop is the product. People are watching for that show. Not all of the 400k are interested or the audience of any game. The 400k+ (sometimes much higher) who watched the D&D podcasts all did so because they were interested. And we've yet to see numbers for the RPG show to see if it's higher or lower. And the DragonAge episode of Tabletop (Jan 2013, with some pretty staggering viewer numbers) didn't help DragoAge stay in the ICv2 charts, and it vanished in late 2012 never to be seen again. Well, 400k are willing to watch Tabletop for free, but when they asked for money, only 20k actually backed the Indiegogo. Far more people are willing to pay to go to a PAX, let alone the PAXes combined. It's still the equivalent of stunt casting. Wheaton has similar name value to the guy who played Harry Kim on Voyager. If it wasn't for Big Bang Theory, his name would be followed by a "who?" You know who would have been a bigger name to get? Anybody. They could have hired a Wayan brother and it'd be as big of news. (Although I'm much more comfortable with the quality with Wil in charge.) I guess expectations are part of the problem. When Green Ronin was being cagey about the setting for their system, I wondered if they had licenced something from WotC and were going to announce Dark Sun or Dragonlance or something. Of if they'd tapped Keith Baker or Ed Greenwood to make the world. (Or both.) But, really, I doubt any of those could compete with DragonAge. This news just means sales of the AGE system won't be lower than sales for the DA RPG. In the same way Margaret Weis Productions does excellent sales for its various Cortex system games (Firefly, Leverage, Marvel) but the actual generic Cortex system is forgotten. DA has pretty much passed D&D as a big name in modern fantasy, being close to Tolkien and Game of Thrones. More people are familiar with Thedas than some D&D worlds. Sales for D&D books are measured in hundreds of thousands, while sales for DA games are measured in millions. After all, the biggest RPG news of 2014 was not the release of 5e but the release of Inquisition... [/QUOTE]
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