Still, the games being discussed in that snippet sell pretty well anyway.
Don't take this the wrong way - cause I certainly haven't accomplished what these folks who have sold 2000 copies of a game have done - but pretty well? I mean, this is part of the thing that I think needs to be challenged. Pretty well compared to what? And that's not being snarky...I mean, really - what was the goal?
Even taking the numbers Koltar gave us from Comic and Game Retailes (or whatever it was), if calculated, would give us some like 27,000 D&D books in a month - yes (Average of 27 and 1,000 Gaming stores)? GURPS, one of the most crunchy, GM centric games is selling 2000
a month.
So, congrats to anyone who has sold 100 copies of something that was a work of passion. Good on ya, mate. But when people say pretty well, I wish it would always be accompanied by "for a micro-press operation" or something.
Geez louise, man! Its not like its the Borg were talking about here!
Why does it have to be a conspiracy to wipe traditional gaming from the face of the earth? Why cant it be a new kind of rpg among many successful, good rpgs?
Well, I think people that say things like "GM Fiat is damaging/corrosive to the hobby" require some sort of understanding and response. It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. It just needs to be said over and over and parroted in enough places that people think it's true - without any objective measure of fact involved.