On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> For those of you planning to sell some sort of gaming product based on
> D20 and the OGL... how do you plan on staying afloat in a soon to be
> saturated market?
Actually I don't think it will not be that bad for now, if ever.
As of today there were 173 subscribers on the ogf-l list.
As of 19 June, there were 113 subscribers on the d20-ogf-l list.
How many of those are actually going to publish is yet to be seen but
my experience is that most people don't get it off the ground.
Working on the domain names of the email addresses most people seem
to be from the US.
Here is summary of the above who files put through a some simple scripts
I put together.
Individuals of each first level domain (gLD and ccLD)
3 au
3 ca
122 com
1 cx
1 de
3 dk
1 es
3 fr
43 net
1 nu
6 org
4 uk
1 us
192 total
This isn't completely correct since it is based on domain. I doubt we
have anyone actually from Christmas Island here (.cx). Though I did get
it to search for country names in domains and things like au isp bigpond.
This has also stripped doubles ignoring case. Take in consideration that
some people here are just curious you have work out a ratio of people
here that will actually publish something. I will be optimisic and say 20%
(you do have multiples here and people from WotC on the list of course).
If people only start distributing locally you should only find competition
in the US. As you can see everyone else will virtually have a monopoly
especially if there are language barriers to cross.
Those who do have other languages will actually benefit greatly since
they will have less product to compete with
In my case probably no competition since the new Goods&Services Tax here
is spooking MANY people from starting businesses in Australia. ;-)
Personally I am wondering since much of this is seems geared towards
Gencon (NDA, etc) are us non-US people being considered for the d20SRD?
While I might not have anything at Gencon I would like to have something
at the six Australian cons if possible and in a number of stores all
along the east-coast of Australia for the actual release (I am expecting
the PHB to arrive here on the afternoon of August 15).
Eric Noah's site is the only reason I have anything done at this moment
(first playtests not this weekend but the one after).
regards,
Scott Nimmo
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