Excellent point. Consider Timewatch. Over $100K in sales, nearly 2000 customers, and if we count the various pdfs and printed items separately, multiple products to each person. I am left wondering how this compares to, say, FATE Core for the period.
If WotC had decided to sell real digital copies of past edition Core rule books it would have made a lot this last year.
Digital PDF sales don't register at all on these surveys.
The report are now 3 a year, Spring, Summer and Fall.
Without the historical data, I'd guess the only time they had a shot at not being #1 was during the bankruptcy and during the key releases from White Wolf in the 1990s.
There was one month in that period when D&D slipped to #2--when no new product was being released and Vampire: The Masquerade Revised had just been released.
Evil Hat publishes their sales figures. What have they been for FATE recently?
Evil Hat publishes their sales figures. What have they been for FATE recently?