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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5337478" data-attributes="member: 7006">These realizations that Black Diamond came to are not really that surprising.  If you were a 3.5 player who had not already made the move to 4E by this point... it shows you pretty much wanted to stay with that type of game.  Thus, your only option for the exchange would be Pathfinder.  Similarly... if you were a 4E player who just "wasn't feeling it" with that game, odds are you had been a 3.5 player previously and made the switch when 4E came out.  Thus, you already owned the 3.5 books and your only choice for the exchange again would be Pathfinder.When you consider the previous sales for all three of these books, let's just say (pulling numbers out of my ass for ease of math) that in total, 50% have been 3.5, 40% have been 4E, and 10% have been Pathfinder.  That means of the total number of books that could be exchanged by Black Diamond's offer... 9 out of 10 of them will be 3.5 or 4E books.  And as its shown that most of these exchanges would go towards Pathfinder... it's not surprising at all the results Black Diamond got.And to take it even further... if you did make the switch to Pathfinder previously... it means you wanted to stay and play in the d20 mechanics realm.   Which means that if you eventually decided that Pathfinder wasn't the game for you... odds are you'd go back to playing 3.5, not jump to 4E.  And in this case... you're probably be more inclined to just hang onto your Pathfinder book and not exchange it, because you most likely already owned all the 3.5 books you'd need and you wouldn't care about buying 4E.So all in all... if Black Diamond maybe exchanged one Pathfinder book for every twenty 3.5 or 4E books, it wouldn't shock me a bit.  But it also wouldn't necessarily mean anything substantial in terms of the quality of the three games.</blockquote>

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