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Top Ten RPGs (in terms of Sales)

Started by RPGPundit, December 08, 2006, 12:23:35 PM

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John Morrow

Quote from: Caesar SlaadOne quick way (not necessarily totally representative) is to look at Amazon sales rankings of core and recent books.

Given the pattern of what I buy on Amazon, I'm not sure that's representative at all.  People could be buying on Amazon for the discount, because it's not available in their local game, comic, or book store, because it was available but sold out, and so on.
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Zachary The First

For their part, Palladium estimates themselves usually bouncing around somewhere in the Top 5, Rifts being the big seller, natch, with Heroes Unlimited 2 being their #2-selling line.
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Good to see that C&C beat out Exalted.  :hehe:

No 'True20' in the top 20, eh?  Hmmm.
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