@Taskerland I don't interpret him like that. He finished in the black and says "I'm actually pretty happy with the numbers, all things considered."

He says he used two distributors because "it gets my games to way more people than I could on my own". So it doesn't sound like his game is left unplayed.

I suppose people could be buying it and leaving it unplayed on their shelf, but based on my personal experience that never happens. Ever. At all.

@strangequark You've never encountered gamers who buy stuff and then don't read it?

@Taskerland Never. If my wife tells you otherwise, she is lying.

@strangequark To be perfectly frank, I accept that this is very much a 'me thing' - I am very sensitive to unequal power dynamics and outcomes.

Most normal people look at these types of outcomes and shrug their shoulders because that's the world but I think of the nice lad who wrote a really good CoC adventure and it took him years to break even while Chaosium wetted their beaks on every sale and I just feel quite sad.

It is annoying, but it is the way I am unfortunately.