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<blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 3813111" data-attributes="member: 53">Drawing on a quote from <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3813109#post3813109" target="_blank">another thread</a>I wonder if the people I see hoping that the market gets split, with a lot of players buying 3.5 products and others buying 4E products (with some doing both), have thought it through.If that happens than 3rd party d20 companies may have trouble surviving.&nbsp; I doubt very many are significantly &quot;profitable&quot; as it stands.&nbsp; If the split happens then they can pretty much cut in half (or worse) any of their products whether they go with 3.5* or with 4th.&nbsp; You'll end up with maybe the top 2 or 3 d20 publishers surviving, but smaller.&nbsp; Most of the small companies will disappear.&nbsp; What you'll be left with is a bunch of amateur PDF publishers with a hit and miss ratio that will rival the 3E glut days.* Actually, based on comments in some threads here 3.5 products will likely be worse.&nbsp; In the &quot;what sort of 3.5 products would you want if don't go 4E&quot; threads a very large number of people said they probably would buy very, very few products.&nbsp; They have what they need now and the switch will give them an excuse to stop buying stuff that isn't &quot;Ptolus level&quot; of quality.Those going with dual stats will have extra work (that they have to pay for) for probably no additional income.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glyfair, post: 3813111, member: 53"] Drawing on a quote from [url=http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3813109#post3813109]another thread[/url] I wonder if the people I see hoping that the market gets split, with a lot of players buying 3.5 products and others buying 4E products (with some doing both), have thought it through. If that happens than 3rd party d20 companies may have trouble surviving. I doubt very many are significantly "profitable" as it stands. If the split happens then they can pretty much cut in half (or worse) any of their products whether they go with 3.5* or with 4th. You'll end up with maybe the top 2 or 3 d20 publishers surviving, but smaller. Most of the small companies will disappear. What you'll be left with is a bunch of amateur PDF publishers with a hit and miss ratio that will rival the 3E glut days. * Actually, based on comments in some threads here 3.5 products will likely be worse. In the "what sort of 3.5 products would you want if don't go 4E" threads a very large number of people said they probably would buy very, very few products. They have what they need now and the switch will give them an excuse to stop buying stuff that isn't "Ptolus level" of quality. Those going with dual stats will have extra work (that they have to pay for) for probably no additional income. [/QUOTE]

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