After a little bit of a hiatus in communication from Avalon, I have been speaking to Lance about printing 'Revenge of the B-movie'. I now have a quote from them and it comes to £790 for a 500 deck run with 100 of those sent to the states and 400 sent to my home address in the uk. That price includes the shipping.
I am now hoping to retail the game for about £10 a deck with a £5 - £6 retail price point. Hopefully this should be out by Dragonmeet, which is nice.
Break even for the run is going to be about 100 decks, dependent on where they are sold and I reckon I can make a profit of about £3k on the run.
Cheers
Iain
Interesting
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 11/09/2007 - 15:28.
Did you experiment with smaller runs? What initiated choosing 500 as an initial run?
-Matt
Realms Publishing
Was that a minimum run?
Submitted by Gregor Hutton on Tue, 11/09/2007 - 17:06.
Was that a minimum that gave a decent price-point, or a strict minimum from Lance?
I think a £3k profit is highly ambitious, but maybe an upper limit if you sell direct. If you make the same again as it cost to print this batch (i.e. you cover costs and get enough to do another batch) I'd put that down as big success.
Good to hear things moving on this front.
I had looked at smaller runs
Submitted by Iain McAllister on Tue, 11/09/2007 - 18:02.
I had looked at smaller runs through RapidPOD but, as we all know, they had some issues. The cost for a 100 deck run was going to be about £500 or so I think meaning to make a decent profit I would have had to sell it at around £12 or so.
The minimum lance set was 500, and after some tussling with the issues involved, I decided to go for it. I was planning to invest about £1000 myself anwyay. I looked at some english printers but the costs for a 500 card run spiralled into the £1500 range.
Upper limit if I sold all direct is more in the region of £5000, but I agree that breaking even is my ultimate goal here. I reckon I can do that off about 100 sales direct.
Do you guys think putting up a 20 card downloadable deck might be a good way to promote the game, giving people the chance to try it out before they buy it?
Cheers
Iain
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Yes, as a CCG player I am
Submitted by David Donachie on Fri, 14/09/2007 - 06:57.
Yes, as a CCG player I am always very persuaded by downloadable test decks. My friends and I often print them out and try them, then go on to buy cards for real. So yes, a downloadable test deck would be a great idea.
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