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The obsession with "muh ruleset" here has no basis in reality, most people playing your game will have never touched a pnp RPG in their life. The idea that somehow properly implementing a ruleset that most people have never encountered will make your sales soar is ridiculous.
The pnp RPG market is tiny -- really, really, tiny. Witcher 3 -- years after release, and counting PC sales only -- brings in about as much revenue as the entire RPG market's US/Canada sales.
data:
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/35150/hobby-games-market-nearly-1-2-billion
http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?1984-Top-5-RPGs-Compiled-Charts-2008-Present
https://www.wepc.com/news/video-game-statistics/
Yes and no. If we're talking isometric RPGs, I think people are actually discounting the advantage that Pathfinder: Kingmaker had simply by being the world's first proper Pathfinder CRPG. Tabletop fans are hardcore about their hobby (look how much money they splurge on Kickstarter) and that could easily account for a hundred thousand or so day one sales.
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