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<blockquote data-quote="CardinalXimenes" data-source="post: 7660835" data-attributes="member: 58259"><p>Well, I can give you some specific numbers up front. According to DTRPG, Stars Without Numbers' free version has been downloaded about 24,400 times. If I run a report on people who have bought both the free version of SWN and the expanded Core version, which just adds another 40 pages of content, I find 744 overlaps. It's hard to translate that number into a percentage of Core editions sold, because I've also distributed it two years running with the Bundle of Holding SWN offer, but if you're speaking only of DTRPG sales, that's about 3/4ths of the total Core sales there. When I compare SWN Free downloaders with those who've picked up Skyward Steel, a supplement that came out just a month after SWN, I see a whopping 964 of its owners had downloaded SWN Free as well, against a total 1108 copies sold through DTRPG.</p><p></p><p>Now, it's impossible to tell how many of those buyers got Skyward Steel first and then downloaded SWN Free, but I have to imagine that's a pretty rare event. What is clear is that the majority of supplement buyers have also grabbed the freebie entry-point into the game, and that these sales are converting at about a 25:1 ratio for me over a long timeframe. I don't really know how much validity that conversion rate would have for other publishers, and I don't know how PWYW would have affected it, but given the evidence that PWYW cuts general uptake I haven't a lot of confidence in that model.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CardinalXimenes, post: 7660835, member: 58259"] Well, I can give you some specific numbers up front. According to DTRPG, Stars Without Numbers' free version has been downloaded about 24,400 times. If I run a report on people who have bought both the free version of SWN and the expanded Core version, which just adds another 40 pages of content, I find 744 overlaps. It's hard to translate that number into a percentage of Core editions sold, because I've also distributed it two years running with the Bundle of Holding SWN offer, but if you're speaking only of DTRPG sales, that's about 3/4ths of the total Core sales there. When I compare SWN Free downloaders with those who've picked up Skyward Steel, a supplement that came out just a month after SWN, I see a whopping 964 of its owners had downloaded SWN Free as well, against a total 1108 copies sold through DTRPG. Now, it's impossible to tell how many of those buyers got Skyward Steel first and then downloaded SWN Free, but I have to imagine that's a pretty rare event. What is clear is that the majority of supplement buyers have also grabbed the freebie entry-point into the game, and that these sales are converting at about a 25:1 ratio for me over a long timeframe. I don't really know how much validity that conversion rate would have for other publishers, and I don't know how PWYW would have affected it, but given the evidence that PWYW cuts general uptake I haven't a lot of confidence in that model. [/QUOTE]
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