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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6664504" data-attributes="member: 5834">Wrong on the points I cited.WotC sees Paizo as a serious competitor. They made the mistake of not doing so early on same as Microsoft did with Netscape and Internet browsers. It bit both of them hard. WotC let them do what they did with the 3E OGL because they thought, "Paizo is nothing. They'll take a tiny bit of the market. Most will come board with 4E because it's D&D. No one has challenged us in years."  Paizo surprised WotC. Probably surprised the entire hobby with their success. How many people at the start thought Paizo could reach the size it is and take as much of the D&D market share as they did? You don't look at a competitor that did what Paizo did and shrug. You study what they did, take what positives you can, and ensure a competitor can't do it again. Fortunately, D&D is big enough to recover. If Mearls and company don't view Pathfinder as a serious competitor to their business, that's bad management. I don't picture Mearls as a bad manager. He's not going to directly speak of the competition as that is not a productive use of the media. In house, it's definitely acknowledged. I doubt we see a war like the one we're seeing between Walmart and Amazon right now. It will be a different kind of competition that I will find interesting to watch. Now that WotC seems focused on rebuilding its customer base and has returned the game to its roots, I wonder if Paizo can sustain. I wonder if Paizo has sufficient money to withstand WotC taking back market share. It will be interesting to watch as 5E continues on.</blockquote>

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