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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5429448" data-attributes="member: 58197">Well, if Pathfinder is in fact selling on a level with 4E, there are three possible explanations:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">D&amp;D sales have utterly collapsed.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">4E left a huge number of gamers &quot;on the table,&quot; so to speak, and Pathfinder grabbed most of them up.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pathfinder has brought in a flood of new or lapsed gamers.</li>
</ol>Out of these, I'm not seeing how #3 would happen; Pathfinder is aimed squarely at 3E fans. And #1 can't be the only explanation, given Paizo's expansion (and the fact that if D&amp;D were selling on a level with Paizo's output pre-4E, it would have been axed already). So my guess would be that #2 is the main cause, always assuming that the claims of sales parity are correct.But that's still bad news for WotC. Wizards almost certainly has much higher overhead than Paizo, considering all the efforts they've been making to branch out recently (board games, fortune cards, etc.), and the fact that they're a big company declining rather than a small company rising. And if the gamer pie is not growing (I don't think it is, much), and Paizo's share is getting bigger, WotC's share has to be getting smaller.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5429448, member: 58197"] Well, if Pathfinder is in fact selling on a level with 4E, there are three possible explanations: [LIST=1][*]D&D sales have utterly collapsed. [*]4E left a huge number of gamers "on the table," so to speak, and Pathfinder grabbed most of them up. [*]Pathfinder has brought in a flood of new or lapsed gamers.[/LIST] Out of these, I'm not seeing how #3 would happen; Pathfinder is aimed squarely at 3E fans. And #1 can't be the only explanation, given Paizo's expansion (and the fact that if D&D were selling on a level with Paizo's output pre-4E, it would have been axed already). So my guess would be that #2 is the main cause, always assuming that the claims of sales parity are correct. But that's still bad news for WotC. Wizards almost certainly has much higher overhead than Paizo, considering all the efforts they've been making to branch out recently (board games, fortune cards, etc.), and the fact that they're a big company declining rather than a small company rising. And if the gamer pie is not growing (I don't think it is, much), and Paizo's share is getting bigger, WotC's share has to be getting smaller. [/QUOTE]

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