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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PosterBoy" data-source="post: 1144934" data-attributes="member: 2259">Disclaimer: I'm friends with James and help him out at RPGNow so I'm bias on my thoughts of RPGNow vs SVGames. But I'm a publisher first and here are my thoughts in that regard.What should publishers not support or sell via SVGames? Because you don’t want the industry commission rate to become 50%, that’s why.Besides SVGames, there is no “real” alternative that I know to RPGNow for the average PDF publisher.  I know there are other sites that sell PDFs, but mostly that’s for specific vendors. So in effect, 20-25% is the current industry standard.  If you sell your PDFs at SVGames, then you’re willing to take 50%.  Now if most PDF publishers choose to sell at SVGames, then what incentive does RPGNow have to stay at 20-25%?  None.  The market has spoken and PDF publishers will have to accept 50% as the industry standard.  So yes, “Getting product in as many places as possible is a good thing” but only if its good for publishers overall.  But how is supporting a trend that will ultimately raise the industry standard rate good for publishers?  Can you imagine how much less we will make if it’s 50%?  Most people complain now that you can’t make enough. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Wait for SVGames to lower their commission rate and then sell there.  Then it’s a good thing for us.  I’m friends with James, but I would still sell any place that offered similar rates and I trusted to actually pay (which is a whole other issue).-chris</blockquote>

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