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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6054723" data-attributes="member: 7006">Paizo doesn't make money selling adventures... they make money selling subscriptions, from which people get adventures sent to them.Same thing WotC does.  They sell subscriptions and you get a couple adventures from Dungeon in return (in addition to a lot of other stuff.)The fact that the number and size of the adventures we got each month dropped over time tells us that they weren't selling enough to warrant putting more money in them.  Word count is costly.  And if they weren't getting a return on their investment of word count... then the thought of staying the course was not economically feasible.Look, I love 4E.  I think it's a great game.  But I don't fool myself in thinking that another set of obscure background books on subjects 4E has yet to cover would make anywhere NEAR the money that a new 3-book core set of a new edition would give them.  It made no economic sense for them to stick with 3.5 at the time... and it makes no sense with 4E.  And in 2020... I fully expect 6E to get released right on schedule too.There will always be players to buy new games.  There are not always old players to buy supplements to older games.  At least not in the same numbers.</blockquote>