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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4923540" data-attributes="member: 19675">You mean in the context of their game, Pathfinder?1) They are the competition.  The competition can get away with saying bad things about features of previous editions of D&D because that's how they define their product.  That's how they get contrast.Maybe they won't escape backlash completely, but their comments aren't going to be taken in the same way as the comments made by the company that owns the property both are maligning.  Their product may resemble D&D, but it isn't D&D.  WotC/Hasbro is the owner of D&D in all of its iterations.2) Not only are they the competition, by making their release a tweaked version of 3.X, they are seen a bit as the "savior" of the old system, thus becoming the "enemy of my enemy"...or at least standard bearers for a revision rather than replacement of 3.X.  The changes they are making are perceived as far less radical than the change from 3.X to 4Ed.  They are making "tweaks," not wholesale systemic changes, and that lessens the impact of the blow.Consider: there was barely a squeak when WotC reworked the Polymorph rules...just a short time before releasing 4Ed.  That tweak wasn't trivial, either.  But it stayed within the framework of extant rules- it wasn't part of a huge change.3) They are a small company, especially relative to the 800lb gorilla that is WotC/Hasbro.  If both Apple and Microsoft did something that created a negative impact on the PC using public, Apple wouldn't get the same kind of negative press- or legal scrutiny- as Microsoft would.</blockquote>

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