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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xechnao" data-source="post: 4745711" data-attributes="member: 58105">I doubt that the demographics of d&d products' market are that easy to do even for them. You do understand that on scale a 10% differentiation is pretty major regarding your sales -business wise. And that is a 10% differentiation of things you can measure. And higher differentiations from your estimates are not uncommon I guess.Now imagine trying to estimate things you cant measure such as damage from piracy or level of interest as you say. You cant even figure out the result of your estimation. Charles Ryan speculated about "trends" (even if he was only talking about piracy). I would say that one should rather more generally try to think about trends if he wanted to be more correct about perception possibilities on our demographic ground: trying to spot trends and make policies than trying to figure out numbers. It is mostly an empiric thing. And the target market wants to and gets to know its trends too. Eventually, policy and trend should be connected with a kind of feedback mechanism -if the business marketing department is successful that is.The question now is what their true policy seems to be behind this current event (if there will be change or if it will remain like this) and this is fairly important to the members of this(our) demographic -at least on the net (as it seems so far) because it may influence our trends and we want to know that. So was it really about a new trend in piracy (contrary to the good sale numbers we have been advertised with by various magazines) or is it really something else? Perhaps some other kind of policy regarding pdfs and/or retailers? And since fans seem to trust the marketing department of Wotc they consider it important to figure out what policies the marketing does carry on.</blockquote>

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