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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6686097" data-attributes="member: 996">They certainly sound like they do, but, no, the comments they make are generally pretty vague or weak or incomplete.  So they might say 'selling even better than we had hoped' - sounds very positive, but we don't know what they were hoping for.  They might say 'selling to a younger audience,' but compared to what, if they weren't collecting the same data, before?  An informed guess?  I can't take that sort of stuff too seriously - but, can I take comfort in the general positive attitude both of WotC and of most of the fans commenting in public.  That alone is a good sign. Sure.  Barring another leak of goals for the line, we're not going to know what those projections may have been.  We can guess based on the slow pace of releases and small staff that they may not have been that high, but you never know, corporations will cut staff and cut costs even on a very successful product. D&D usually does pretty darn well compared to the rest of the industry. I doubt it.  Pathfinder is late in it's life cycle, very late, if you consider it as one with 3.5, making adopting it an intimidating prospect if you weren't already familiar with 3.5 (even then, a bit of a stretch), and the general zietgiest surrounding it is very different, since it is a continuation of a prior edition, rather than the newest thing.   A ramp up would be a sure sign not just of success, but of an expectation that said success is sustainable, and growth a possibility.  I don't think Paizo will be a barometer of that success, though, they have a solid, loyal fanbase that they support very well, they're goal has to be stability - also a 'holding pattern,' in essence, though one that, as a much smaller company, they're probably very happy with.</blockquote>

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