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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7982224" data-attributes="member: 37579">Knowing a new edition will be announced in a year would have given them the opportunity to cancel planned projects or reduce the scope from big hardcovers to smaller softcovers. Pause the work before investing time and money into art and writing before it was too late. Or even just order smaller print runs.But they could have involved them in the private friends-and-family playtest process, which gets more eyes on that while also leaving the publisher free to decide if they want to support PF1, hold off on PF support in upcoming Kickstaters, or abandon said Kickstarters and relaunch with PF2.The big Midgard hardcover could have easily been 5e only with promises to do Pathfinder later. Instead, they're stuck with a large stock of books they're <a href="https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/midgard-players-guide-for-pfrpg-print/" target="_blank">practically selling for a loss</a>.Not even remotely. They don't need to tell everyone in the company. Just the owners and people who make the decisions. Or ask them to sign an NDA first. Were they worried Wolfgang Baur couldn't keep a secret? Plus, it's not like there were zero rumours of PF2. People had been whispering and speculating since Pathfinder Unchained in 2015. But, sure. They made a decision to keep in secret. They had their reasons. That's fair.However... the fact of the matter is still that Paizo spent years complaining about how WotC treated them and other 3rd party companies with the change over between 3e and 4e, casting shade over how they had been kept in the dark regarding the new edition and weren't invited to help test or see the product in advance. And then largely did the same to their 3rd party publishers the first chance they got. So while it's fair to have kept things quiet and sprung it on everyone at the same time, it makes them seem hypocritical.</blockquote>

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