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Top 3 Showdown: Farsight's Official Pre-1980 Poll
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<blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 186541" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>Big Shot/Scared Stiff and Central Park/Cactus Canyon.</p><p></p><p>Farsight seems to operate as though they do have sales data for the EMs. This is hypothesizing, but the most obvious way to do it would be to report and track which table initiated the purchase from within the game. Obviously that's not infallible, but would give you a decent ballpark estimate, certainly enough to get a good idea of whether the sales are driven 50/50 or 90/10.</p><p></p><p>They can also know player engagement fairly accurately by counting the number of hits to the leaderboards. Or count support inquiries related to each table, or forum and facebook mentions, or even Google traffic referrers, or some other similar proxy metric.</p><p></p><p>Or even without that, there's some meaning to be found in sales totals alone. It would be pretty reasonable to compare a pair of packs with similar leading tables and different-era secondary tables (say Champion Pub/Whirlwind and Cactus Canyon/Central Park, or AFM/Genie and MM/Bride) to tease out how much appeal is brought by the latter.</p><p></p><p>I trust Farsight knows what they're doing with their ideas of projected sales for EMs. The prior tables being paired in packs doesn't prevent that at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vikingerik, post: 186541, member: 3745"] Big Shot/Scared Stiff and Central Park/Cactus Canyon. Farsight seems to operate as though they do have sales data for the EMs. This is hypothesizing, but the most obvious way to do it would be to report and track which table initiated the purchase from within the game. Obviously that's not infallible, but would give you a decent ballpark estimate, certainly enough to get a good idea of whether the sales are driven 50/50 or 90/10. They can also know player engagement fairly accurately by counting the number of hits to the leaderboards. Or count support inquiries related to each table, or forum and facebook mentions, or even Google traffic referrers, or some other similar proxy metric. Or even without that, there's some meaning to be found in sales totals alone. It would be pretty reasonable to compare a pair of packs with similar leading tables and different-era secondary tables (say Champion Pub/Whirlwind and Cactus Canyon/Central Park, or AFM/Genie and MM/Bride) to tease out how much appeal is brought by the latter. I trust Farsight knows what they're doing with their ideas of projected sales for EMs. The prior tables being paired in packs doesn't prevent that at all. [/QUOTE]
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