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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5260184" data-attributes="member: 21076">Let me preface that I have no real numbers at all to back this up and that it is pure subjective, by the gut opinion...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But, I would not be surprised if you were right.  I suspect a lot of people are playing 3.5 right now, content with the books they have and feeling very little reason to make the jump to Pathfinder.  However, I do think this ratio will trend (or continue to trend) to more 3.5 fans moving to Pathfinder.  I think the out of print thing will begin to have a larger and larger impact as time goes on.  It isn't as likely to impact the people with large 3.5 collections, but as new players come to the game they very well might only own Pathfinder books.  Or be introduced to the game and not want to troll eBay for out of print rulebooks when in a couple of clicks at Amazon have a Pathfinder book winging their way to them with a game designer that actively supports that system.  So I suspect the trend will continue to see 3.5 gamers transition to another system over the course of time.Again, purely speculative, I have no numbers to show to prove this, just an opinion.This is probably quite true.</blockquote>