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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 5781332" data-attributes="member: 5868">I suspect that in the short term this announcement is not going to be good for business for either Paizo or WotC.  To whit:Most 4E fans will continue to play 4E, but some will quit buying products waiting for 5E.  The announcement it not likely to cause them to switch to Pathfinder if they haven't already (minus a few purely out of curiosity).Most Pathfinder fans will continue to play Pathfinder, but some will be interested in switching to 5E and will refrain from new purchases until 5E comes out.  Few if any will switch to 4E in the interim.Those playing out-of-print editions aren't buying new products for the most part, so if the announcement causes them to buy 5E in the future, good, but it will not cause them to suddenly switch to 4E or PF (again, minus a tiny minority out of curiosity).So the net effect is the both 4E and PF lose some business as people wait on 5E.  I know I'm one of them -- I'm going to wait and see what is next until a new product pops that absolutely grabs me, and I haven't seen one of those in more than six months.</blockquote>