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Started by eruditus, November 05, 2003, 05:28:01 PM

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eruditus

And lets not forget Philcon the weekend of December 12th :)

Ubercon was great.  Luke and I have found that stuff sell by playing.  All you have to do if find folk to run and play and your almost guarenteed sales.

My next Forge purchase is Universalis.  I think I am about ready to run FVLMINATA and My Life with Master.  Although I am a dedicated BW groupy I can be convinced to run other stuff.

I hope to play Sorcerer for the first time at Lollagazebo, this weekend.
Don Corcoran, Game Whore
Current projects include The Burning Wheel, Artesia and Mortal Coil
"All Hail The Wheel!"

Ron Edwards

Hello,

I split the above post from After Ubercon report for the Forge.

It's all good news, and have a good time at the con - but 'ware of posting to older threads, OK? Check out the guidelines posted at the top of the Site Discussion forum.

Best,
Ron

eruditus

Quote from: Ron EdwardsHello,

I split the above post from After Ubercon report for the Forge.

It's all good news, and have a good time at the con - but 'ware of posting to older threads, OK? Check out the guidelines posted at the top of the Site Discussion forum.

Best,
Ron

uh, I am confused.  I assume in the guidelines you are referring to the following statement:

QuoteF. Thread "resurrection"

If you find an older thread (not on the first page of the forum) that you wish to discuss, we ask that you create a new thread and link to the old one instead of "resurrecting" the thread. This helps everyone in terms of researching threads, and seeing where a discussion started and stopped.

The thread I posted to is only 16 days old and IS on the first page of the forum.  Is there another definition of "older thread" you have posted elsewhere I should be informed of?

Besides, in a response to a thread barely three weeks old my statement not only has absolutely no relavence without reading the former posts (only one entry long) but forces a user to then look around for another relavent post which seems to contradict the idea of "This helps everyone in terms of researching threads, and seeing where a discussion started and stopped."

But hey, your the boss.  :)
Don Corcoran, Game Whore
Current projects include The Burning Wheel, Artesia and Mortal Coil
"All Hail The Wheel!"

Ron Edwards

That was my mistake, actually: I mis-read the dates. I apologize for the im-moderation.

Let's carry on, though - as it turns out, Luke and I actually had a conversation very recently about you. Yes! This is true. So it's good to see you here.

I'm interested in hearing someone else describe the power of "sell through playing." I based my initial thoughts about it on watching the CCG guys sell their stuff like gangbusters at conventions, all on the strength of playing a couple of hands of their games right there at the booth.

In your view, what sort of demos work best? What's the most effective ratio of time-per-demo to sales?

Best,
Ron