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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Porridge" data-source="post: 7982210" data-attributes="member: 7020143">While I can understand these publisher’s frustration, it’s not clear there was any alternative open to Paizo that would have made things any better. Paizo let the 3PPs know a new edition was coming over a year in advance. Suppose instead Paizo had told them two years in advance. That would:1. Have still frustrated the 3PPs who had just started up big kickstarters 2 years ago (of which there were also several).2. Have done nothing to help the 3PPs who were gearing up for big projects the following year (like the Kobold Press project mentioned above), since being told “we’re going to come out with another edition of PF, but we can’t tell you anything helpful about it yet because we won’t have worked out what the rules are for at least another 18 months” doesn’t give 3PPs anything helpful to work with. 3. Have virtually guaranteed that this information would be leaked to the public a year earlier, leading to a drastic drop-off in Paizo’s sales a year earlier, and possibly driving Paizo to bankruptcy before PF2 was even released.</blockquote>