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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5265753" data-attributes="member: 59506">From your own description I don't think this is the case:  (*added by me for emphasis only, as it was an unspoken element...kind of like "you" as a subject in a sentence that doesn't specifically say it...) I think this is probably quite typical and highlights something I believe to be true: If someone already didn't like 4E, and was leaning towards not playing it anyways (or switching back to 3E or another game), then Pathfinder did not steal them away from WotC. They had already left or were already looking to leave. WotC did not lose them to Paizo, as they were already lost to them. The only way customers were stolen away from WotC, is if someone was a customer of 4E, planned on staying with 4E, but then switched because of, and only because of, Pathfinder. I'm not saying there aren't some people out there for which this is true, and quite likely some of the very people in this thread, but I think they are probably a very very small group. I'd bet that most people who bought Pathfinder were those who had already decided to stick with 3E/3.5E, and those who were already disapointed with 4E, whether they had bought 4E books or not.  Although not scientific, and really wouldn't "prove" anything, I'd be interested to see what a poll would show if it asked: For those playing Pathfinder as their primary game, what was your status before choosing Pathfinder? Options:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Originally preferred 4E but thought Pathfinder was better when I saw it. (Woo'd away from 4E.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had already decided to stay with 3E/3.5E, but saw Pathfinder as it's successor.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Originally switched to 4E, but became disapointed with it...then Pathfinder released.</li> </ul><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></blockquote>

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