[UA] Re: Hesitation - Market research ;-)

[Wiels Fabrice]

Hello Greg...

>> After two years of hesitations, I have finally bought
>> this wonderful game that is Unknown Armies.
> 
> Strictly from a market research perspective, I'm curious about two things.
> (1) What made you hesitate?  (Price, didn't like the cover, heard the
> authors were obsessed with buttocks, something else?)  (2) What overcame
> your hesitation?

To answer the first question is very difficult.

Yes, the cover may have played a role in that hesitation (I still don't
like it, but I suppose it's personnal taste ;-)

The price was not too high, so that was not the problem.

I think there are two main reasons :
- There were other games that were interesting me more than UA, so I bought
them first, and afterwards, it was very difficult to find the game in the
game shops where I dwell ;-)   I live in Belgium, and the local shops tend
to focus on french games and on very popular games in english like D&D
and the like...   Anyway, I finally found it in a shop where I don't go so
often...   They just had the basic book and the TNI sourcebook, so I had
to order the others.
- The second reason was that I had little information on what the game
was about...   Even the back cover of the book is not quite explicit...


Why did I finally bought this game ?

Two reasons, again :
- First, I admit I was very impressed by the positive critics I found on
the net...   People saying UA was the best rpg they ever read since CoC,
well...   I had to check by myself ;-)
- Second, when I looked at the cover more closely, I recognized the names
of John Tynes (which reminded me of the excellent Deltagreen stuff) and
of Greg Stolze (sorry to admit it, but I didn't remembered at that time what
you had  done before, but I knew I had something from you in my collection
and I was convinced it was good...   Now, I know it's City of Lies).

Anyway, I obviously don't regret my choice to buy (although quite late)
this wonderful game...

I hope this mail will help you to understand the basic motivations of
a regular game collector ;-)

I hope my english is not too difficult to read.
I still need some training...

Sherinford


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