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<blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5639296" data-attributes="member: 57948">However, there are two different reasons to need a reboot. The first one, which you have accounted for, is saturation point. The second one is lack of selling power. If they don't get enough money from their products (once the core book sells start to tank), they'll need to reboot, just to sell the core book once again. That's what's called &quot;planned obsolescence&quot;. It's true that Adventure Paths make for a much better business plan. It's more sustainable, and has more staying power, as you never have &quot;enough&quot; adventures as long as you keep playing. But that said, I doubt Paizo could make profit only selling AP. They need to sell other products as well (both splatbooks and supplements like Bestiary, and, mainly, the evergreen products like Core rulebook). Once those start to go below a level, they'll *need* a reboot, and it doesn't matter if they have 50.000 pages published or just 20.000. They'll need to sell the Core again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="triqui, post: 5639296, member: 57948"] However, there are two different reasons to need a reboot. The first one, which you have accounted for, is saturation point. The second one is lack of selling power. If they don't get enough money from their products (once the core book sells start to tank), they'll need to reboot, just to sell the core book once again. That's what's called "planned obsolescence". It's true that Adventure Paths make for a much better business plan. It's more sustainable, and has more staying power, as you never have "enough" adventures as long as you keep playing. But that said, I doubt Paizo could make profit only selling AP. They need to sell other products as well (both splatbooks and supplements like Bestiary, and, mainly, the evergreen products like Core rulebook). Once those start to go below a level, they'll *need* a reboot, and it doesn't matter if they have 50.000 pages published or just 20.000. They'll need to sell the Core again. [/QUOTE]

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