Congrats on Selling Out!


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At GenCon, I mean! I hope that the unanticipated early sell-out of Starfinder Core Rulebooks bodes well for the future of the game. I just picked up one at my FLGS and am hopeful for the opportunity to get involved in some gaming sessions there. Really excited for Starfinder, and looking forward to more to come! Congrats to everyone at Paizo!


Downloading also took me over 3 hours, so I guess the online sales are strong as well


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You know, I expected you go in an entirely different direction than that.


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I was expecting soooo much negativity here, I was actually shocked by the actual sincerity. Thanks OP for brightening my day! :D


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Malefactor wrote:
You know, I expected you go in an entirely different direction than that.

My post title probably reflects reading too many clickbait articles. :(

Really excited about SF though, and hope to see much more space-fantasy goodness ahead!


No doubt about it, they did sell out at GenCon that Thursday. I had to pick up my copy via download. And downloading it was laboriously slow, but I eventually got my copy. I have it backed up on my memory stick.

Based on how much they sold, yeah. Be prepared for more.


I think I got one of the last few adventure paths on thursday man that thing was selling fast.


EltonJ wrote:

No doubt about it, they did sell out at GenCon that Thursday. I had to pick up my copy via download. And downloading it was laboriously slow, but I eventually got my copy. I have it backed up on my memory stick.

Based on how much they sold, yeah. Be prepared for more.

The final turn out numbers for gencon 50 were were over 200k unique attendees. I think they printed more than they felt they would need but with such epic turn out and being one of the hot con items to buy I don't think they could have afforded to print as many as would have gotten purchased. Printing books costs cash so there is the problem of you need the money flow to prime the pump enough to sell them. They had a ton of pathfinder stuff there but the demand was just incredible.

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kaid wrote:
EltonJ wrote:

No doubt about it, they did sell out at GenCon that Thursday. I had to pick up my copy via download. And downloading it was laboriously slow, but I eventually got my copy. I have it backed up on my memory stick.

Based on how much they sold, yeah. Be prepared for more.

The final turn out numbers for gencon 50 were were over 200k unique attendees. I think they printed more than they felt they would need but with such epic turn out and being one of the hot con items to buy I don't think they could have afforded to print as many as would have gotten purchased. Printing books costs cash so there is the problem of you need the money flow to prime the pump enough to sell them. They had a ton of pathfinder stuff there but the demand was just incredible.

Not quite that many at Gen Con, but yeah, good job on selling out of almost everything Starfinder related! I got to play a session on Sunday, and I really enjoyed it. The perfect blend of simplified sci-fi and Pathfinder for me (as someone who plays a lot of Pathfinder).

For those interested in Gen Con numbers, 207,979 Turnstile attendees (4% increase), with about 60,000 unique attendees (sold out before the show this time)


kaid wrote:
Printing books costs cash so there is the problem of you need the money flow to prime the pump enough to sell them. They had a ton of pathfinder stuff there but the demand was just incredible.

Not to mention the increased costs (time, money, manpower, space) to transport all those extra books to the con, in addition to everything else they brought.

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