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Dave Brookshaw
Jun 27, 2012

No Regrets

UnCO3 posted:

Didn't the 7th Sea 2e. kickstarter kinda screw themselves over by giving out all their previous products for free to pretty much anyone who pledged?

No. The fatal mistake of John Wick Productions was offering *future* products as free pdfs for pledges over $40 on the corebook kickstarter; turned out anyone who wanted to buy 7th Sea backed it, so they steadily lost money on every book in the line until they couldn't continue.

(EDIT: There were also high-roller pledge reward giving *physical* copies of all the future books as well, but I believe it was the "pdfs for all!" that did for them.)

(EDIT EDIT: They did also offer an odd on to get all of 1st edition as pdfs for extremely cheap, but lots of games do that - if you're making a new edition, the old edition's sales are naturally going to plummet, so it helps bring some interest in while you're working to fulfil. Just never ever *ever* do the same thing to your planned future catalog.)

Dave Brookshaw fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 20, 2020

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