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<blockquote data-quote="Darwinism" data-source="post: 5676883" data-attributes="member: 6669722">Hahahaha, no, it isn't. D&amp;D makes up a pretty insignificant portion of WotC's marketshare; it would have to tank entirely to impact WotC much at all. MtG is what WotC makes money off of. Everything else is tertiary at best.How? Being familiar with both 3E and 4E on the DM's side I will tell you that 4E is far, far easier to design for. And yet Paizo is completely unwilling to even try. That indicates, to me, that they recognize that some of their current consumers would be terribly offended by Paizo daring to act smartly and explore a market. The most vocal of Paizo's adherents, by their forums, seem to long to return ye days of yore when TSR would only publish quality material and never sully itself with unwanted and unneeded splatbooks. Except those people are ignorant to what caused TSR to die and what caused 3E to end.Source it or it's just wishful thinking.Source it.Oh right there are no actual sources with any methodology worth quoting that say that. Right, so even indicating that you want one game to doing better than the others is no more than projecting.Oooh, do I get to pull up the Amazon numbers that show Pathfinder in two-three places in the top twenty and D&amp;D in the rest again? Do I get to remind people that those rankings are absolutely worthless because no numbers are attached? Do I get to inform people that IcV2 is anathema to any intellectual because their methodology amounts to, &quot;We call some people and ask their opinions, nevermind actual numbers or anything like that,&quot; again? Hot dog!Hasbro doesn't care about WotC unless MtG dies a sudden, unexpected death. That's all there is to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darwinism, post: 5676883, member: 6669722"] Hahahaha, no, it isn't. D&D makes up a pretty insignificant portion of WotC's marketshare; it would have to tank entirely to impact WotC much at all. MtG is what WotC makes money off of. Everything else is tertiary at best. How? Being familiar with both 3E and 4E on the DM's side I will tell you that 4E is far, far easier to design for. And yet Paizo is completely unwilling to even try. That indicates, to me, that they recognize that some of their current consumers would be terribly offended by Paizo daring to act smartly and explore a market. The most vocal of Paizo's adherents, by their forums, seem to long to return ye days of yore when TSR would only publish quality material and never sully itself with unwanted and unneeded splatbooks. Except those people are ignorant to what caused TSR to die and what caused 3E to end. Source it or it's just wishful thinking. Source it. Oh right there are no actual sources with any methodology worth quoting that say that. Right, so even indicating that you want one game to doing better than the others is no more than projecting. Oooh, do I get to pull up the Amazon numbers that show Pathfinder in two-three places in the top twenty and D&D in the rest again? Do I get to remind people that those rankings are absolutely worthless because no numbers are attached? Do I get to inform people that IcV2 is anathema to any intellectual because their methodology amounts to, "We call some people and ask their opinions, nevermind actual numbers or anything like that," again? Hot dog! Hasbro doesn't care about WotC unless MtG dies a sudden, unexpected death. That's all there is to it. [/QUOTE]

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