[UA] Release schedule stuff

[Cassady Toles]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:10:59 -0500, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  Do I think that if UA would sell better if it had come out with a bigger
  print run, immediate support, and a string of supplements in the pipe?  No
  way to know.  The only NEW game I've seen presented that way was
Deadlands.
  
  However, Deadlands was a big hit.
  
Deadlands also covered a genre (the western) which had never been covered
well in a new way, creating an entire new genre (westernized cthulhu).  UA,
unfortunately, didn't blaze as much new ground.  It covers in a lot of ways
the same genre as Kult but with greater playability.

I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, but I think this makes a difference
in terms of what gamers will buy it.  Deadlands also could more easily be
sold to the average "I only play white wolf" gamer.  I know, I convinced
four people to pick up deadlands over werewolf the wild west.  They all
thanked me for it.

But, the release model of a deadlands I'm sure appeals to the retailer. 
Look at the logic:  I can fill a rack with different products for this new
game and create the option that a new player will buy within a month of each
other:  player's book, first sourcebook, some region-specific book in which
to run the game; the four books that go more deeply into the types of magic.

Or the UA/Pagan appeal to retailers:  There's five books in the line, that's
all the person is likely to buy in a year.

So I'm sure that makes a difference to the retailer, if not the customer

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