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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 4122626" data-attributes="member: 48965">Eh, different strokes for different folks I guess...I mean according to this logic, no one anywhere is playing anything but D&D and every other rpg publisher is appaently publishing books for the love of it rather than making a profit. In other words anyone who isn't WotC is just wasting their time.  I just don't see it that way.  I play a multitude of games and D&D is just one amongst them, with WW actually garnering more of my money than WotC did this past year.Isn't this the case with any rpg?  Again by this logic no one would ever try to break-in with a new game.  I think the people at Paizo actually have a strong enough understanding of the fanbase for Pathfinder because it is currently based on a subscription model.  They probably,(through this and through the amount purchased in stores), have a pretty good idea how large their fanbase is and apparently believe it is large enough to go with a Pathfinder brand rpg.  In the end Paizo is creating a rpg to go with a brand that has been out for over a year and no one, except those employed at Paizo, knows what those numbers really look like.  They don't have to be D&D profit numbers...they only have to be Paizo profit numbers.I personally feel WotC didn't give Paizo a choice...they snatched Dungeon and Dragon from them...didn't allow them to compile and publish the Age of Worms adventure path (which may have given them the revenue to wait a little longer), decided to charge $5,000 for a license which, while promised in January, no one still knows when it will be available (or whether it will allow the products Paizo wants to publish under 4.0).  I mean really everyone claiming how Paizo fumbled the ball as far as 4e , really needs to look at the plays WotC decided to call throughout the marketing and production of 4e with the 3rd party publishers.</blockquote>

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