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How will OGL 1.1 affect Pazio, PF1 and P2?
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<blockquote data-quote="FormerLurker" data-source="post: 8884403" data-attributes="member: 7031660"><p>Do you know the best way to make a small fortune in tabletop gaming?</p><p>Start with a large fortune.</p><p></p><p>They're not some mom-and-pop but they're also not a huge corporation with $100 million just collecting dust in the vaults. Employees cost money. Staff salaries alone likely cost Paizo half-a-million monthly. Plus office space. Plus the printing runs for a half-dozen hardcover books: $10 to print, times 200,000 copies is a couple million per book. </p><p>They can't just sit around and burn money for six months or a year. Heck, they couldn't even stop selling PF1 books while building to PF2 and needed to sell playtests to recoup development costs.</p><p></p><p>But they didn't. And the old product still uses it. </p><p>They'd have to go through and re-edit all their old PF2 books to make sure they're non-OGL compliant. </p><p></p><p>How can you run a big sale if the majority of your content can't be sold?</p><p>Loans are an option. But require collateral. And if they lose the legal fight, they'll never be able to repay the loan.</p><p>And as you imply, the pandemic would have also hurt them hard. Shrunk their reserves. This could be the one-two punch that takes them down.</p><p>It's not like larger gaming companies haven't folded...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerLurker, post: 8884403, member: 7031660"] Do you know the best way to make a small fortune in tabletop gaming? Start with a large fortune. They're not some mom-and-pop but they're also not a huge corporation with $100 million just collecting dust in the vaults. Employees cost money. Staff salaries alone likely cost Paizo half-a-million monthly. Plus office space. Plus the printing runs for a half-dozen hardcover books: $10 to print, times 200,000 copies is a couple million per book. They can't just sit around and burn money for six months or a year. Heck, they couldn't even stop selling PF1 books while building to PF2 and needed to sell playtests to recoup development costs. But they didn't. And the old product still uses it. They'd have to go through and re-edit all their old PF2 books to make sure they're non-OGL compliant. How can you run a big sale if the majority of your content can't be sold? Loans are an option. But require collateral. And if they lose the legal fight, they'll never be able to repay the loan. And as you imply, the pandemic would have also hurt them hard. Shrunk their reserves. This could be the one-two punch that takes them down. It's not like larger gaming companies haven't folded... [/QUOTE]
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