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<blockquote data-quote="fearsomepirate" data-source="post: 8216165" data-attributes="member: 7021420"><p>Ultimately, it's comes down to consumer behavior. In the case of 4e, by and large, many people flatly rejected it as the successor to 3rd edition. Doesn't matter what the label said on the tin. What matters is consumer behavior. 4e was such a disaster that another company, despite not being allowed to use the phrase "Dungeons & Dragons" anywhere, literally marketed their product as "3.5 <s>Lives</s> <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Thrives!</span>" and had a legitimate claim, in the eyes of much of the marketplace, to be the true carriers of the D&D torch.</p><p></p><p>But the problem with Pathfinder is that you can't sustain a product identity on somebody else's IP. As long as the IP owner is around and kicking, the successor product is theirs to make. That's exactly what happened with 5e. Since it launched, the dominance of 3.x-based gaming has collapsed, and I'm not just talking about Pathfinder. 3.5 itself was, by the few metrics I can find, still quite popular around the 5e launch, and interest in it has completely collapsed since then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fearsomepirate, post: 8216165, member: 7021420"] Ultimately, it's comes down to consumer behavior. In the case of 4e, by and large, many people flatly rejected it as the successor to 3rd edition. Doesn't matter what the label said on the tin. What matters is consumer behavior. 4e was such a disaster that another company, despite not being allowed to use the phrase "Dungeons & Dragons" anywhere, literally marketed their product as "3.5 [S]Lives[/S] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Thrives![/COLOR]" and had a legitimate claim, in the eyes of much of the marketplace, to be the true carriers of the D&D torch. But the problem with Pathfinder is that you can't sustain a product identity on somebody else's IP. As long as the IP owner is around and kicking, the successor product is theirs to make. That's exactly what happened with 5e. Since it launched, the dominance of 3.x-based gaming has collapsed, and I'm not just talking about Pathfinder. 3.5 itself was, by the few metrics I can find, still quite popular around the 5e launch, and interest in it has completely collapsed since then. [/QUOTE]
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