I do not know where I am going next, but at the moment I am focused on making sure I leave this job well.

Thanks all.

Just like a real family. There’s always one.

You just got way cooler to me.

Many game publishers prevent stores from selling on sites like Amazon to protect against online discounters and counterfeiting BUT allow stores to sell games on their own website. This can be a great way to get the convenience of online shopping but also still support local small businesses.

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Oh and I should add this is for Hobby. For a game I’m placing in Mass your number is much more accurate.

So the solution (if you want to be in Distribution) is consolidators who are also going to take a small cut (which brings us closer to your number) but combine smaller publishers together to make it easier for a Distro to hit the free minimum ship amount and prevent outages. Hope I’m being helpful?

Of course if you’re a young single game publisher you just aren’t going to have the demand in the market in most cases for Distro to hit those free minimum ship numbers. That’s why going direct into Distro at the start can actually hurt a new publisher by creating outages on their game.

Just to make sure young Publishers aren’t getting “taken for a ride” based on that 30-35% number, most US Distributors buy at around 60% off MSRP (Net30) but expect some sort of free ship minimum. Alternatively if we’re bringing the containers over ourselves then 65% off MSRP is more accurate.

It’s a small thing but a “Notify on Restock” button I’ve been working on for months went live on our website for retailers yesterday. So now if there’s a game retailers are after they can get a direct email notification when it’s back in stock.

We do the like “this one present is from Santa.” They also all kind of know it’s a game but a fun game. The Santa presents are the only ones that “appear” Christmas Eve night.

2006. Our eyes were so wide open with delight and anticipation for where this might go!