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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 4341050" data-attributes="member: 7394">If Paizo is no longer publishing a magazine, the same is true for WotC. Online PDFs are just as much not a magazine as a monthly publication, even though they both bear striking similarities. They are also competing because they are both selling (or will be selling) an updated version of D&D. They'll just be different versions.Nuimbers are constantly in flux. To say that they aren't a signifficant portion of the market demographic today doesn't speak to what they'll be tomorrow. The last time that I saw a new gaming company with the momentum Paizo currently has was in the early '90s, the first time I'd ever heard of Wizards of the Coast. It should be no suprise that some of the same people who put WotC on the map to begin with are running Paizo.Three of the biggest players in the D20 market were ex-WotC: Paizo, Malhavoc, and Green Ronin, all of which rank at the top of the heap, all of which are poised to go on to do other ijmpressive things that have nothing to do with 4E.I didn't actually say that collectible minis were a financial blunder. I said that it was something people once couldn't fathom and would be unpopular with a segment of their customer base. At any rate, any move they make that costs them even a small percentage of their sales is a bad move, and I'm fairly certain that the WotC spinoff companies have and will continue to cost them money. If it isn't enough for them to worry about, that's their decision, but some of the comments I've seen floating around by certain WotC staffers lately lead me to believe that they actually are concerned about their market positioning. But then again, to not be would be the type of arrogance that brought TSR down to begin with.</blockquote>

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