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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7810259" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Lorraine said it wasn't worth their time, and then later in this thread some MERP sales figures came out.Those figures are around half of a BECMI boxed set (released 1991) that wasn't the red box and in its lifetime it sold slightly more than 2Es first year sales. This was not peak D&amp;D either. 3.0 on release sold in a month what MERP sold in its lifetime.That gives you the idea of the scale involved.When Lorraine said that it was also when D&amp;D was on a downward slide. They already had 2 or 3 product lines all of which were selling more. If you've got a product that sells 30-40k a year and several other products that sell 10 times that amount what are you going to go with?The OP states her words were &quot;Not worth our while&quot;.People seem to think MERP is worth millions and millions. Its not. Its worth something of course but Lorraines words make a bit more sense when you look at the scale of things circa 1992. Its a similar genre to what you already are making and what you're already making sells a lot more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7810259, member: 6716779"] Lorraine said it wasn't worth their time, and then later in this thread some MERP sales figures came out. Those figures are around half of a BECMI boxed set (released 1991) that wasn't the red box and in its lifetime it sold slightly more than 2Es first year sales. This was not peak D&D either. 3.0 on release sold in a month what MERP sold in its lifetime. That gives you the idea of the scale involved. When Lorraine said that it was also when D&D was on a downward slide. They already had 2 or 3 product lines all of which were selling more. If you've got a product that sells 30-40k a year and several other products that sell 10 times that amount what are you going to go with? The OP states her words were "Not worth our while". People seem to think MERP is worth millions and millions. Its not. Its worth something of course but Lorraines words make a bit more sense when you look at the scale of things circa 1992. Its a similar genre to what you already are making and what you're already making sells a lot more. [/QUOTE]

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