That's very true. I had a rather small product. Revision of Psionic Combat that has no graphics, was barely 8 pages and that I had done no advertizing for other than placing a link to it in my sig file on some message boards. I ended up taking it down when the status of Mind Flayer's changed between draft and final SRD. Even then I had close to 500 downloads on it in the course of the two months or so it was up. My estimates for people who might be willing to pay for it were 1/50th the number who downloaded it for free.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Spike Y Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Purveyors of lousy advice > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:20:40 +0100 > Mark Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I mentioned in October that we were working on a d20 product > > designed only for game masters and game designers, some of the > > perpetual purveyors of lousy advice on this and other lists began > > beating their drums and broadcasting that such products are stupid, > > that there's no market for them, etc. etc. > > > > We released the product I mentioned above on Dec. 1. It's > > our Vintyri RPG Campaign Setting Guide in PDF format. As of today > > this product has been downloaded 2,241 times. > > I think there's one important thing to note: your product is a free > download. > > There's a lot of difference between someone telling you "There's no > market for your product," and someone telling you "Nobody would be > interested in your product even if you gave it away for free." > > Spike Y Jones > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
