The Gap Graph

Short post, but something I wanted to share with y’all.

This is a graph over time of the “gap” — the size of the difference between Evil Hat webstore preorders of the print versions of the Dresden Files RPG volumes, Your Story and Our World.

Your Story has been leading Our World by several copies throughout the span of the preorder — presently, at 1343 copies preordered, it’s ahead by 73 over the 1270 of Our World.

What’s interesting is that as of about two or three weeks ago — essentially one month into the preorder — the gap started to narrow.  I’m not sure what this is indicative of, though I suspect it’s probably not indicative of one thing so much as several. Two main factors I can easily think of are:

• People learning that Our World can be used as a “fan guide” and setting book if you’re not interested in RPGs or are, but not in Fate;
• People who bought Your Story getting the next paycheck that makes it possible to come along and buy Our World as well (or the other kind of follow-up sale: buy Your Story to see if it’s all it’s cracked up to be, and upon positively evaluating that, coming back to buy the next book too)