Deneb Sector and Solomani Rim Now Available

dragoner · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:11 pm

msprange wrote:

barnest2 wrote:

I haven't been able to buy any mongoose products in about a year (no cash + family)

My friend, we are all in the same boat these days. No one has any money...

I did just buy some mong pdf's through DTRPG, I will buy more (being a poor student again at 44 is hard, but it won't last forever); if Mongoose can just weather this storm...it's tough, I won't jinx it by saying it will get better, but imo it can't stay bad forever. I was at my FLGS and asked about Mongoose products and they said they were going to get some star fleet minis in.

IanBruntlett · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:30 pm

msprange wrote:

It may not be commmon knowledge (though, given the world economy, I would venture it should be obvious), but every RPG company you care to name, bar _maybe_ one or two (I caveat that, as I heard recently how many copies a supplement for a _very_ well known and supported RPG sold - if I divulged that, it would _stun_ you how few were sold), is fighting for its life right now.

You lot (you know... them

) have stopped buying books, retailers have closed down or switched product lines, while costs on _everything_ have risen.

Hand on my heart, if Mongoose had not gone back to miniatures (a slightly more stable market) we would likely have folded two years ago. Things are that tight with RPGs.

I noticed the increased emphasis on miniatures. I'm coming to the end of a reading break and will resume running Traveller games - soon, I hope, but I've got household stuff to spend my time on as well. My players are casual gamers so I end up on buying the books. Partly because RPG books go out of print, partly to accommodate my players, I have bought multiple copies of the Traveller Core Rule Book and the various Traveller universes.

lastbesthope · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:48 pm

msprange wrote:

lastbesthope wrote:

If you make good books, people will ask for them in their shops and the shops will order them. You do seem to make god books, so not printing them for shops to stock seems .... well wrong basically.

Pete, if only we had more like you

OK then, having taken everything on board that you say above about the gaming market. If you're only going to make hardcopy available from yourselves, this produces two required actions:

1) I am more likely to show up to Club Mongoose, assuming I can stock check before I come, to do some shopping. aNd if you want me to buy new NA minis you need to get Fading Suns out "tout de suite" (sp?)

2) You need to not list things as "In stores" when they can only be purchased through yourselves or DTRPG, be explicit where your restricted selling places are.

I think the latter is more important. Had I known of these issues sooner I'd have gotten less narked.

LBH

lastbesthope · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:53 pm

And a question, does this basicallymean that for the forseeable future, all your print releases will be available through Mongoose's webstore only?

LBH

msprange · **Joined:** Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:25 pm **Posts:** 12347

lastbesthope wrote:

And a question, does this basicallymean that for the forseeable future, all your print releases will be available through Mongoose's webstore only?

LBH

No - but some will be. For example, we are just doing the print runs now that will put Solomani Rim and Deneb into stores (will be there in November).

lastbesthope · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:13 pm

msprange wrote:

lastbesthope wrote:

And a question, does this basicallymean that for the forseeable future, all your print releases will be available through Mongoose's webstore only?

LBH

No - but some will be. For example, we are just doing the print runs now that will put Solomani Rim and Deneb into stores (will be there in November).

Well in that case see my point 2) above. You need to make it ABSOLUTELY clear which items will be available through which outlets. PDF, MGP only for hardcopy, and which will hit stores.

LBH

RichardP · **Posted:** Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:52 am

Both books are on esdevium games distribution list for this week priced at £16.99 each :lol:

lastbesthope · **Posted:** Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:53 pm

RichardP wrote:

Both books are on esdevium games distribution list for this week priced at £16.99 each :lol:

I saw, yay!!!

LBH

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