Scott Nimmo wrote:
> We have about 14 gaming stores in Melbourne that I know of (pop
> 3mill) and did the rounds
> to let stores know of CC (and other d20 stuff). The stores that took me
> seriously got 8 copies
> each (with another 8 coming later in this week), none of them expect to
> have any on the shelves
> for a fortnight at least because of pre-orders from advertising.
> Stores that thought I was full of it got a couple of copies and
> are trying to get more and losing sales to other stores.
What sort of advertising do you have for gaming products down in Australia? Here in
Colorado (USA), I haven't seen any kind of advertising at all. There isn't anything in
Dragon Magazine (#277 November). Shoot, Dragon is filled with ads for computer games -
I've only seen a few products that are specifc to role-playing games. Stores don't
advertise in the paper (as far as I know) and rely totally on word of mouth and the
yellow pages.
Just wondering how the word got out to pre-sell copies of the CC. Maybe every gamer is
on one mailing list or another where the announcement went out.
> I think the real test for CC won't come until six months down the
> track or at least until RR
> comes out. One store reckons just over 1 in 4 of people buying MM
> wanted CC and not many
> asked about the price (hell I don't know how much mine cost).
RR? Sorry, don't catch the reference.
1 in 4 of MM sales can't be all bad. What's the PHB at now? The first print run was 1
million? And they just went to the printers for a second run to meet Christmas demand?
Did I hear all that right?
Weldon Dodd
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