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Sometimes, I'm torn between two of my driving urges. As a businessman and writer, I want to make as much money as I ethically and happily can for my work. Thus when something is working well for Super Genius Games, I have an urge to talk about it as little as possible. After all, why would I want the (very smart) competition figure out what we're doing and figure out how to use something similar to step up their competition.
On the other hand, I was a huge gaming geek and fan of the community long before I was paid to write, and those urges remain very strong. I want *everyone* to do well, because I genuinely *like* a lot of my competition. And the more money they make, the more cool things they can produce that I can buy and add to my games.
Of course some things are no-brainers. Anything I can do to boost Paizo also boosts my biggest potential market, and that's good for me. Anything I can do to spread goodwill toward SGG from other 3pp increases the chances of something cool coming out of it later. And, of course, gamers often prefer to buy things from designers they think of as "not a )!<&"
And, I like helping along people who seem to be doing good things for the company as a whole.
All of which is a really long-winded and grandiose way of talking about a site that's done some great reviews for us, and that I know has driven sales. That's Robot Viking, run by Ed Grabianowski (who also writes for io9.com). Robot Viking has been running reviews of Pathfinder-related material for a while now, including a lot of SGG products. In the most recent review, Ed specifically takes a moment to note "By the way, if you produce third party Pathfinder products and would like Billy, our resident Pathfinder DM-in-Chief, to review some of them, send me an email (you’ll find it in the masthead at the upper right of this page)."
This site has done several great reviews of our products, and seem to raise our visibility when they do it. If you are a 3pp who'd like to get reviewed more, I *do* encourage you (as a fan of the game!) to get in touch with them.
Okay, now I have to go explain this breach of secrecy to the Genius Illuminati...
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Sometimes, I'm torn between two of my driving urges. As a businessman and writer, I want to make as much money as I ethically and happily can for my work. Thus when something is working well for Super Genius Games, I have an urge to talk about it as little as possible. After all, why would I want the (very smart) competition figure out what we're doing and figure out how to use something similar to step up their competition.
On the other hand, I was a huge gaming geek and fan of the community long before I was paid to write, and those urges remain very strong. I want *everyone* to do well, because I genuinely *like* a lot of my competition. And the more money they make, the more cool things they can produce that I can buy and add to my games.
Of course some things are no-brainers. Anything I can do to boost Paizo also boosts my biggest potential market, and that's good for me. Anything I can do to spread goodwill toward SGG from other 3pp increases the chances of something cool coming out of it later. And, of course, gamers often prefer to buy things from designers they think of as "not a )!<&"
And, I like helping along people who seem to be doing good things for the company as a whole.
All of which is a really long-winded and grandiose way of talking about a site that's done some great reviews for us, and that I know has driven sales. That's Robot Viking, run by Ed Grabianowski (who also writes for io9.com). Robot Viking has been running reviews of Pathfinder-related material for a while now, including a lot of SGG products. In the most recent review, Ed specifically takes a moment to note "By the way, if you produce third party Pathfinder products and would like Billy, our resident Pathfinder DM-in-Chief, to review some of them, send me an email (you’ll find it in the masthead at the upper right of this page)."
This site has done several great reviews of our products, and seem to raise our visibility when they do it. If you are a 3pp who'd like to get...
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Chief Technical Officer
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Okay, now I have to go explain this breach of secrecy to the Genius Illuminati...
I got you covered on that. Since you're pointing people at an independent reviewer, just tell the aforementioned Illuminati* that you've set a trap for the companies with below-average products, who will thus get below-average reviews, helping you and your quality products rise above them.
While Darth Savageus consolidates his power with his latest acquisition base after less than two weeks, I'm beginning to discover who the apprentice is. There is always two.
Thanks for this information, Owen! Always appreciate more review possibilities.
yes, very much appreciated. thank you.
+1!!! Very nice!!!!
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Nice save, Vic! I'll try that. (Not that anyone on this thread would qualify for such a trap. Hmmmm...)
And no, I was referring to a more generic Illuminatus, not 'Illuminatus!' himself. :)
Ed tells me he's gotten a fair amount of 3pp stuff to review since my post so it sounds like Pathfinder will be well-represented among the cyber-raiders, which is great!
Nice save, Vic! I'll try that. (Not that anyone on this thread would qualify for such a trap. Hmmmm...)
And no, I was referring to a more generic Illuminatus, not 'Illuminatus!' himself. :)
Ed tells me he's gotten a fair amount of 3pp stuff to review since my post so it sounds like Pathfinder will be well-represented among the cyber-raiders, which is great!
So, Owen, can I interest you in using all that free time I know you have to sell advertising for Robot Viking? :-)
Thanks for sending in your review materials, everyone!
So, Owen, can I interest you in using all that free time I know you have to sell advertising for Robot Viking? :-)
Sure, Ed.
Everyone, buy advertising on Robot Viking.
Aaaaand... I'm out of free time.
So, Owen, can I interest you in using all that free time I know you have to sell advertising for Robot Viking? :-)Sure, Ed.
Everyone, buy advertising on Robot Viking.
Aaaaand... I'm out of free time.
With the SGG release schedule, that's more free time than I thought you'd have.
In all seriousness, and if I can be spammy for one moment, advertising on RV is really inexpensive. Ask me about the details if you're interested.
I have to say, my gaming group moved on to 4E, so I hadn't been following Pathfinder/OGL too closely until Billy started doing the reviews for us, and it's awesome to see that the game is healthy enough to support so many 3P publishers.
Ed-
Shoot me an email at creech@dragonwing.net about those rates.
Thanks. :)
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Steve Creech
DragonWing Games