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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5676832" data-attributes="member: 6957">You are assuming that WotC is not losing marketshare - a dangerous assumption. That is among the people that you know - what gets shouted down as anecdotal evidence when brought up about Pathfinder.My experience is exactly the opposite, and, guess what? We both can be right. We live in different places, and game with different people.In my opinion writing 4e material would be wasting resources, perhaps doubling the amount of time spent on mechanics without a like increase of sales. Not a productive direction. Unknown - it is more likely that the sales had dropped below a 'magic number', but that the sales of 4e have crested much faster than planned.And if PF is outselling 4e, as seems to be the case in many areas, then WotC has made a poor choice. If we fold Pathfinder in with 3.X then 3.X is going stronger than 4e. Partly because rather than letting 3PP saturate the market WotC went and glutted it themselves. Or just let you look it up yourself in the two or three threads on the subject, thank you in turn. Places to look include Amazon and Icv2, Ingram agrees, as does B&N.... Do your own digging, now that you have a map. Actually, you are exchanging 'silly' for 'dangerous'. If WotC is slipping, and it possibly is, then Hasbro is likely to reorganize them. Fire people, replace managers, trim lines.... On the flip, WotC has been trimming its own lines and moving its own management around or replacing them.... Hopefully WotC can avoid a hammer from above them in the chain of command. Common to fantasy gaming since 1975, and fantasy magazines since the 1920s at least....The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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