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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8259317" data-attributes="member: 18">You haven't succeeded in either claim absent other figures. We can probably work some math to figure out whether it's negligible or not, but that hasn't actually been done, and we need backdated figures to show that DMsguild has "clearly more sales volume". If these can be provided, then you can "refute" or say it's "clear" but that is not yet viable.To be clear, an alternative explanation re: volume would be that DTRPG saw a gradual uptick in usage at some point and that it's actually selling at the same sort of rate as DMsguild (or possibly higher) when it comes to newer products.In fact, this is actually kind of supported if we look at the Adamantine products for DTRPG. Cyberpunk RED, which came out what, late 2020 (as this isn't the cut-down version) appears to be at the top (I mean, that may be deceptive, we don't know the exact ordering, but it isn't alphabetical or publishing date nor last updated, so I suspect that's it). Equally, Ancestry and Culture, which is June 2020, is up there, and Alien, December 2019. Most of the top is battlemaps, which would make sense.I can go on, but it looks like, apart from battlemaps, a very large percentage of DTRPG Adamantine products are from the last three years.This would tend to suggest a massive and somewhat recent surge in RPG sales generally.EDIT - As a purely anecdotal aside, I'd note that if I look at my purchases on DTRPG, I don't buy much until 2013, and then it gradually starts to speed up quite a bit. If I look at my RPG bookshelves too, that's about the year when I increasingly buy less actual RPG books and more PDFs.</blockquote>

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