Paul Beakley Your point, if I understand it, is that the 24.5 million dollars poured into traditional games are really just people not playing? And that somehow, the other 500,000$ is a bunch of engaged indy gamers?

Maybe you are right, i can’t know across the country. But I play traditional games 4 times a week. There are multiple sessions of traditional games at my game shop. and the ORR report, which tracks actual people playing actual games has. . . let’s see: http://blog.roll20.net/post/143493281735/the-orr-group-industry-report-q1-2016

Literally 36,213 confirmed traditional games with 86,367 actual human bodies, just playing online, in a 90 day period. That’s 1069 games a day.

Let’s look deeper and assume that if every single one of the games in the other category were non-trad games (and I think that’s a completely unreasonable assumption), that’s still only less than 20% playing indy games. And that’s only tracking people playing roll20. And I’m pretty certain a significant portion of “other” is actually traditional games.

So, yes, in conclusion, I’d say that the vast majority of people spending money and being tracked playing are actually playing traditional games.

Or is the data of people actually playing games not representative of engagement either?