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Originally Posted by Intense_Interest  Well I can see that you have a big problem or fault in your comparison here- only two of the companies there are international. Its really an apples-to-oranges problem.
Piazo, for all its allusions to greatness- such as hiring (in)famous D&D designers and unleashing fat and impressive rulebooks full of product- is a small, boutique printing company.
TSR and WotC (and Hasbro) are international companies. I have yet to hear any words about full-product support for, say, Dutch from the Piazo camp. With that full-product support comes language translation, international bureaucracy, and legal support in every individual country/language. That is beyond the scale of our "little company that could". |
True. Paizo probably sells in the thousands, to tens of thousands of units, where as, at least with their core rule book set, WTOC sells hundreds of thousands of sets.
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