> --- Greg Stafford <Greg_at_... <mailto:Greg%40glorantha.com>>
wrote:
> > There's no doubt that HQ
> > publications have diminished.
> > but heck, ORQ have too, and gosh, WB&RM doesn't sell
> > a bit anymore!
>
> Ah, so the original concept was correct, even if it
> used the wrong vocabulary.
"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is like the difference between lightening and lightening bug." --Mark Twain
> HQ sales, down.
But not down as much as the pessimists seem to think. Again, I can't disclose exact numbers but the sales trend is pretty much normal.
> So, how come the Mongoose stuff is selling well, and
> the stuff those of us on this list actually want,
> isn't?
The entire line got off to a start during the general RPG crash and sales were never as good as RQ in its heyday. But in those days sales of CoC and RQ were declining too. Go back and check to see how many of the new games that were released at about the same time have ANY material being published for them now.
The perceived downturn in sales is more in the minds of disappointed fans than in the market.
> I just have a horrible
> feeling that having some full-time employees on the
> job may have something to do with it :(
Of course that's it. And advertising, trade show attendance, professional publishing budget.
But Moon Design, like Issaries before it, is a small publisher and if someone expects big publisher numbers, this is a delusion.
--
Greg Stafford
President, Issaries. Inc.
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