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Originally Posted by Saving Throw
To turn players from the free option companies have to lower their prices or raise their hype.
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I am not so sure about this, because sometimes it could be more useful to
have a good and innovative idea.
Over here a group of fans wrote an RPG named "Ratten !" ("Rats !"), where
the players' characters are, well, rats. They published the game as a free
PDF, used the feedback to expand and improve the game, then published
a print version (on demand), and now are working on a translation into Eng-
lish, and have started to create several other RPGs, including a new gene-
ric system.
What first seemed to be a really stupid idea (I mean, rats ?) has turned into
an - albeit still very small - business success, because the authors had a lot
of truly good and new ideas, a fresh approach to RPGs.
So, no lowered price (from free PDF to print version) and no raised hype (al-
most no hype at all), and still at least a remarkable success.
And "Ratten !" is only one example of several successful projects of this kind.
Sure, the market is changing rapidly, but in my opinion for the better.