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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9373439" data-attributes="member: 8461">I disagree. From what I can tell, everything that's been put forward so far seems to rely on inference, i.e. &quot;this makes the most sense, so it must be true.&quot; I'm trying not to get sucked into that line of thinking.As near as I can tell, even if we disregard the &quot;established wisdom&quot; that an edition of any RPG will sell less and less over time until its publisher has to put out a new edition in order to survive, the two quotes linked to before don't speak to a decline in sales of PF1. &quot;We had trouble paying our bills at some points&quot; doesn't tell us why they had trouble. Putting in 60-80 hours of work to get something out the door, likewise, is inferred to be because they didn't have enough money to hire more staff, but even if that's correct (and there are no other salient factors), it doesn't tell us that sales went down from what they were.I can understand the impulse to draw what seems like an obvious conclusion from data which sounds like it's nodding in the direction of that conclusion. I'm just pointing out the leaps of logic involved in doing so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9373439, member: 8461"] I disagree. From what I can tell, everything that's been put forward so far seems to rely on inference, i.e. "this makes the most sense, so it must be true." I'm trying [I]not[/I] to get sucked into that line of thinking. As near as I can tell, even if we disregard the "established wisdom" that an edition of any RPG will sell less and less over time until its publisher has to put out a new edition in order to survive, the two quotes linked to before don't speak to a decline in sales of PF1. "We had trouble paying our bills at some points" doesn't tell us [I]why[/I] they had trouble. Putting in 60-80 hours of work to get something out the door, likewise, is [I]inferred[/I] to be because they didn't have enough money to hire more staff, but even if that's correct (and there are no other salient factors), it doesn't tell us that sales went down from what they were. I can understand the impulse to draw what seems like an obvious conclusion from data which sounds like it's nodding in the direction of that conclusion. I'm just pointing out the leaps of logic involved in doing so. [/QUOTE]

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