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<blockquote data-quote="The_Fan" data-source="post: 4115548" data-attributes="member: 11607">On the one hand, I can understand Paizo's frustration with the license being late and their two biggest projects being taken away from them. Without Dungeon and Dragon, and without the license, they have little other recourse in remaining alive as a company.On the other hand, there's a streak of bitterness and nerd rage a mile wide in this. It's covered under language of &quot;wanting to tell our sort of stories,&quot; but railing against secrecy in a closed beta test is a deliberate and unnecessary &quot;Take THAT!&quot; that strikes me as sour grapes.Furthermore, I don't like their business model. At all. &quot;Okay, we'll give you a slightly improved version of what you already have for free so you can playtest it. Then, a few months later, once we iron some of the kinks out, we'll charge you for it so you can help us fix it better! Then, once we're satisfied with it, we'll charge you TWICE AS MUCH for the final version. And we may switch to another game at that point.&quot;The only people I see going for that are the REALLY recalcitrant 4e haters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The_Fan, post: 4115548, member: 11607"] On the one hand, I can understand Paizo's frustration with the license being late and their two biggest projects being taken away from them. Without Dungeon and Dragon, and without the license, they have little other recourse in remaining alive as a company. On the other hand, there's a streak of bitterness and nerd rage a mile wide in this. It's covered under language of "wanting to tell our sort of stories," but railing against secrecy in a closed beta test is a deliberate and unnecessary "Take THAT!" that strikes me as sour grapes. Furthermore, I don't like their business model. At all. "Okay, we'll give you a slightly improved version of what you already have for free so you can playtest it. Then, a few months later, once we iron some of the kinks out, we'll charge you for it so you can help us fix it better! Then, once we're satisfied with it, we'll charge you TWICE AS MUCH for the final version. And we may switch to another game at that point." The only people I see going for that are the REALLY recalcitrant 4e haters. [/QUOTE]

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