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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6664670" data-attributes="member: 2525">According to pretty much every person who works at WOTC who has spoken on the topic - they do not.  They view their competition as the wider entertainment market, and quite like Paizo as Paizo promotes the niche market of RPGs which is healthy for D&D.  Indeed, apparently a lot of people buy both Paizo products and WOTC products and they cross-pollinate - it's the people who drift away to non-RPG entertainment products that are the true competition.  Paizo employees have said similar things. The same group of freelancers now seem to be working for both companies. The only people I've ever seen stress this idea that they view each other as the competition - is fans on message boards.  Now maybe what you're really thinking is they SHOULD view each other as competition, and that the reality is they are in fact competing.  But - what you're saying differs from that.  You're saying their current view is that they see each other as competition, even though they say they don't see each other that way.  So are you saying all these people, at both companies, are just lying? Or do you mean to say they should view each other that way, even if they don't currently view each other that way?</blockquote>