Transparency Agenda Daily September 13th 2016 - Owen KC Stephens MUST be...

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Transparency Agenda #34: With Ben McFarland!!!!

This time it is a little different with Transparency Agenda with the added excitement of having professional hobbylancer, Ben McFarland. This Transparency Agenda we are discussing the top ten from Paizo and some other interesting 3PP releated material. Plus you will get to see all the INTERESTING issues we have pulling this off using Google+. It is good we had a tech guy so close to help us out.  Talk to you later... 

Transparency Agenda #32: Examining top 10 sales 3PP Sales on Paizo.com Week - Sept 13th

Well after all the interest that I created with the last Examiningtop 10 sales 3PP Sales on Paizo.com I did

I decided it might be best to do this weekly and keep the information going. So let’s compare the last three weeks:

August 30^th the top ten consist of:

Kobold Press – 1 product

Legendary Games – 4 products

Minotaur Games – 2 products

Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product

Rite Publishing – 1 product

Super Genius Games – 1 product

September 6^th the top ten consist of:

Kobold Press – 1 product

Legendary Games – 5 products

Minotaur Games – 1 product

Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product

Super Genius Games – 2 products

September 13^th the top ten consist of:

Kobold Press – 2 products

Legendary Games – 4 products

Minotaur Games – 1 product

Pathfinder Paper Minis – 2 products

Super Genius Games – 1 product

As you can see right off the bat the list of companies that the top 10 have not changed in 3 weeks, but there is a change in quantities.  In the week of September 13, both Legendary and Super Genius Games both sold 1 less product while Koblold Press and Pathfinder Paper Minis both increased sales by 1 product.  

Minotaur Games stayed #1 for the second week in the row with Rule Zero:Underling. 

Legendary kept the #3 spot with Mythic Monsters: Demons while Ultimate Battle dropped to #4. Mythic Magic: CoreSpells came in at #7 and Ultimate Rulership in at #10

Kobold Press’ releases Advanced Races 2: Darakhul Ghouls entering at #2 and Dark Fey entering at #5.  

Super Genius Games had there only appearance at #6 with TheGenius Guide to More Cavalier Talents.

Pathfinder Paper Minis took the #8 and #9 spots with PathfinderPaper Minis—Pathfinder Module: "The Dragon's Demand" PDF and Pathfinder Paper Minis—SandpointTownsfolk PDF.

Can Minotaur keep the #1 spot for another week? What new 3PP will be added to this list of names? Who will fall off the list? What do think about this? What gets you interested in buying a products? Tell me what you think! Talk to you later…

Transparency Agenda #31: Legendary Games + Super Genius Games = ???

Transparency Agenda #30: Examining Top 10 3PP Sales on Paizo.com

So I started doing some research on looking at the sales data that Paizo.com provides each week in their email and I noticed some interesting things.  First off, I compared each week of sales from July 26 until last week’s email on September 6. Over those seven week there were a total of 70 possible different products in the weekly top 10 listing.  The following is a list of 3PP and how many products they had in the top 10 over this 7 week period (In alphabetic order):

• Dreamscarred Press – 3 products
• Kobold Press – 12 products
• Legendary Games – 17 products
• Minotaur Games – 5 products
• Necromancers of the Northwest – 1 product
• Pathfinder Paper Minis – 6 products
• Rite Publishing – 6 products
• Super Genius Games – 18 products
• Zombie Sky Press – 2 products

Now looking at this list, I am sure you already will have some preconceived ideas and concepts of who the most successful companies in 3PP at Paizo. On products alone, Super Genius Games, Legendary Games and Kobold Press have count for over 65% of the products on this list. While this is very impressive the really interesting part is looking over these numbers over time. 

I have included a PDF of the last 7 weeks of sales at Paizo.com available for you to download and look over, just click to get your copy.

Starting with July 26^th the top ten consist of:

• Dreamscarred Press – 1 product
• Kobold Press – 3 products
• Legendary Games – 1 product
• Rite Publishing – 1 products
• Super Genius Games – 3 products
• Zombie Sky Press – 1 product

August 2^nd the top ten consist of:

• Dreamscarred Press – 1 product
• Kobold Press – 1 product
• Legendary Games – 1 product
• Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product
• Rite Publishing – 1 product
• Super Genius Games – 4 products
• Zombie Sky Press – 1 product

August 9^th the top ten consist of:

• Dreamscarred Press – 1 products
• Kobold Press – 2 products
• Legendary Games – 1 product
• Necromancers of the Northwest – 1 product
• Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product
• Rite Publishing – 1 product
• Super Genius Games – 3 products

August 16^th the top ten consist of:

• Kobold Press – 2 products
• Legendary Games – 2 products
• Minotaur Games – 1 product
• Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product
• Rite Publishing – 1 product
• Super Genius Games – 3 products

August 23^rd the top ten consist of:

• Kobold Press – 2 products
• Legendary Games – 3 products
• Minotaur Games – 1 product
• Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product
• Rite Publishing – 1 product
• Super Genius Games – 2 products

August 30^th the top ten consist of:

• Kobold Press – 1 product
• Legendary Games – 4 products
• Minotaur Games – 2 products
• Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product
• Rite Publishing – 1 product
• Super Genius Games – 1 product

September 6^th the top ten consist of:

• Kobold Press – 1 product
• Legendary Games – 5 products
• Minotaur Games – 1 product
• Pathfinder Paper Minis – 1 product
• Super Genius Games – 2 products

Now if you have been paying attention looking over these charts did you notices a few things about 3PP. Let’s take these one at a time:

1. Over time it looks like the many of the established 3PP (Super Genius Games and Kobold Press) are being out sold by the new 3PP company (Legendary Games).
2. Minotaur Games, Pathfinder Paper Mini and Rite Publishing each seem on average to have a steady sell rate of 1 product in the top 10 each of the 7 weeks.
3. There are normally an average of 6 different companies on the top 10 list but last week there were only 5 companies listed.
4. Looking at how products actually sale (using Super Genius Games’ products and sales ranks), the initial week the product comes out there is great interest. But only after two or three week interest fades as new product is released.  
5. Based on Legendary Games sales cross promotion of product with other related Paizo specific does promote sales as does products that can be cross promoted with each other’s like Super Genius Games’ Talented line products .
6. Minotaur Games is the only one man shop 3PP who made this list. The effect of being a great game designer AND an access to Paizo’s “aura of influence” as an employee can affect your sales directly.
7. Even though Legendary Games PDF products have a price point of $9.99, customers seem not to be phased by it and still purchase in large numbers.

What do think about this? What gets you interested in buying a products? Tell me what you think! Talk to you later…

Transparency Agenda #023: Secret Plan X is revealed!!!!

LPJ Design makes #4 on Paizo.com

Looks like we made #4 on Paizo's Top Downloads this week. Congrats to Legendary Games, Super Genius Games, Jon Brazer Enterprises and Dreamscarred Press on all there support of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.  Trade Routes: Expanded Caravan Rules Sourcebook (PFRPG) has been selling like hot cakes! Great work to Chris Fields on this project.  Talk to you later.

52 Product to release for NeoExodus from August 2011 - July 2012. Pathfinder fans rejoice!!!

Sounds crazy right? But it isn't.  I have done it before when I was doing M&M Superlink with Mutants & Masterminds (back when it was good) and it was crazy back then. We released products at a rate of one a week for two years!  And with that sale shoot through the roof.  It was a great time to be a PDF publisher.  Now EVERYONE is in the PDF game, but no one is really doing the weekly release schedule (except Super Genius Games) like we used to do back in the day.  So that is why I decided to go back to that.  As a way to get people excited about the 3PP Pathfinder material we are doing here with NeoExodus: A House Divided.

We have hired several new writers, assigned a LOT of work to them and have our artists in order for work. 52 PDF release this year AND roughly 10 Print on Demand releases too.  Come on with all the PDF content we are making you had to figure we would convert some of it to the print on demand market through RPGNow or Lulu at the least, didn't you?. But best of all we have made it a business wide goal for LPJ Design for the upcoming year to get picked up by Cubicle 7, to act as our print broker and distributor of our gaming material to retail locations.  We talked to them in the past and Angus Abranson seemed interested. I guess we are going to have to prove why they should be working with us.  Time to step up our game.  Start saving your money NOW, and get ready for August.  Forget those other campaigns you were thinking about playing, NeoExodus is taking over your gaming table.  Talk to you later...

[Business News] LPJ Design has acquired a minority stake in a Third Party Publisher of Pathfinder Material

What does that mean in plain English? Basically it means I have put some of LPJ Design money into another company to have some percentage of ownership which entitles me to a percentage of their profits. What does that mean for LPJ Design? Really nothing on a day to day basis. We will not be changing anything with what we do with LPJ Design. I have minority stake in this company because it offers me access to some things that LPJ Design doesn’t. Better yet it gives me the ability to build another source of income for my business which in turn makes the RPG industry stronger. Plus I can do a few projects that might fit well with the LPJ Design without directly attaching it to LPJ Design, like if they were doing a setting that might be a good idea but not very “LPJ Design”-ish.

Now the big question a few are asking is, Who is the 3PP did LPJ Design purchase a minority stake in? Was it Rite Publishing? 4 Winds Fantasy Publishing? Open Design? Jon Brazer Enterprises? Super Genius Games? Well who ever it is there is one thing you can say for certain, The artwork and graphic design is going to look beautiful! Talk to you later…

The waters of Third Party Publishing is getting full with new publishers...