Dice4Hire
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It doesn't have any meaning. It's interesting.
Nice that you do, but taking numbers out of context to make a point is an old trick.
It doesn't have any meaning. It's interesting.
Nice that you do, but taking numbers out of context to make a point is an old trick.
A little part of me dies every time one of these threads pops up.
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It would be interesting to see whether the Pathfinder books take the place of the 3.5E core books in Amazon's top 25 list of gaming type books. If the Pathfinder core and bestiary books become "evergreen", there might be something to this meme of the "staying power" and popularity of the 3.5E rules at the expense of 4E in terms of book sales.
I like Pathfinder but I don't see it out selling 4e. Ignoring that I imagine a lot of people buying Pathfinder will subscribe if only for the first couple of rule books to get the pdfs with them. Do a lot of people buy Pathfinder modules/ap/chronicles from amazon?
But will they sell well. I dunno. I follow the pathfinder stuff here, and it seems a vocal min ority who psot in most of the same threads, so it seems to me that it is not strongly supported, at least inteh mainstream.
On the other hand, Paizo is still in business and seemingly doing well 10 months after losing the Dungeon/Dragon gravy train, so their sales must be all right. I do think the new Pathfinder RPG will increase their sales, as it seems well done, and should attract new fans.
That might have something to do with the fact that 3.5 has been in existence for about six years, while 4e has only been in existence for about 1. You have to let 4e have a lifetime before you compare lifetime sales.Of course if you take into effect that the sales are over the books lifetime, yes 3.5 has sold more.