Poll: Official Birthright Product Line

[spehar]

Specific figures are irrelevant, unless you plan on coughing up the dough or are part of a group that does so. You can blame a lot of causes on the lackluster sales. Anyone here a marketing major/grad?

[Chioran]

Not a marketing major or a grad, but I did marketing for a software company for almost a year. I could convince eskimos that their igloo would not be complete without central air.

[Lawgiver]

Orginally posted by Chioran
Not a marketing major or a grad, but I did marketing for a software company for almost a year. I could convince eskimos that their igloo would not be complete without central air.

There is a big difference in personal sales and throwing product on a bookstore shelf and expecting it to disappear. Other than gaming conventions and limited exposure to magazines such as Dragon advertising RPGs is a bit difficult. Overall the best method is word of mouth... Unfortunately, neither Elrder or I (the two biggest mouths on the page) work for WOTC. :)

[Chioran]

Orginally posted by Lawgiver

Orginally posted by Chioran
Not a marketing major or a grad, but I did marketing for a software company for almost a year. I could convince eskimos that their igloo would not be complete without central air.

There is a big difference in personal sales and throwing product on a bookstore shelf and expecting it to disappear. Other than gaming conventions and limited exposure to magazines such as Dragon advertising RPGs is a bit difficult. Overall the best method is word of mouth... Unfortunately, neither Elrder or I (the two biggest mouths on the page) work for WOTC. :)

However, between the two of you, you could probably generate enough intertia to get an email campaign going. If WOTC is innundated they may react.

[Chaos Lord Arioch]

Inuit. Chioran.
They're not called eskimos, they're called Inuit.
(just being a wise guy;))

A book of Guildcraft is definitely the way to go. Like some have said before, clarification of rules regarding trade routes and perhaps an expanded random events list for guilders.
(Or expanded random events for that matter!).

[Chioran]

Orginally posted by Chaos Lord Arioch

Inuit. Chioran.
They're not called eskimos, they're called Inuit.
(just being a wise guy;))

A book of Guildcraft is definitely the way to go. Like some have said before, clarification of rules regarding trade routes and perhaps an expanded random events list for guilders.
(Or expanded random events for that matter!).

Gee, I thought Inuit was the company that made the Quicken software. ;)

[Mark_Aurel]

That's Intuit, not Inuit.

[Lawgiver]

Orginally posted by Mark_Aurel
That's Intuit, not Inuit.

I thought it was southern slang for: "I knew the answer." as in: "It was the butler in the dining room with the candlestick. Inuit!"

[Mark_Aurel]

That's not very intuitive on paper, but once you try to pronounce Inuit without knowing the proper pronounciation, it becomes very intuitive.