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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8691421" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>These sales numbers give more credence to the stories that the sales people didn't tell the creative people what was selling and what wasn't, or try to set any direction for the lines. And when you compare these numbers to the Greyhawk numbers from yesterday it gets more puzzling - the Greyhawk Adventures hardback in its initial publication year of 1988 did better numbers than the Realms boxed set in '87! If anyone in the financial side had been looking at the sales numbers you'd think they'd suggest pushing Greyhawk harder.</p><p></p><p>I do think that the Realms popularity grew through the computer game side of things. And also there's a good reason to use the Realms over Greyhawk - TSR had a signed contract from Ed Greenwood showing they owned the Realms outright lock, stock and barrel. TSR also owned Greyhawk - but their ownership of it was through the fact that Gygax published Greyhawk through TSR before he was forced out and so who knows if the computer game rights might be at risk over that. If there was any thought to what the creative side was publishing beyond "keep cranking out content" it might have been a choice to push the setting they owned free of entanglements over the one that had possible questions over it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8691421, member: 19857"] These sales numbers give more credence to the stories that the sales people didn't tell the creative people what was selling and what wasn't, or try to set any direction for the lines. And when you compare these numbers to the Greyhawk numbers from yesterday it gets more puzzling - the Greyhawk Adventures hardback in its initial publication year of 1988 did better numbers than the Realms boxed set in '87! If anyone in the financial side had been looking at the sales numbers you'd think they'd suggest pushing Greyhawk harder. I do think that the Realms popularity grew through the computer game side of things. And also there's a good reason to use the Realms over Greyhawk - TSR had a signed contract from Ed Greenwood showing they owned the Realms outright lock, stock and barrel. TSR also owned Greyhawk - but their ownership of it was through the fact that Gygax published Greyhawk through TSR before he was forced out and so who knows if the computer game rights might be at risk over that. If there was any thought to what the creative side was publishing beyond "keep cranking out content" it might have been a choice to push the setting they owned free of entanglements over the one that had possible questions over it. [/QUOTE]
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