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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw" data-source="post: 4125447" data-attributes="member: 59911">Maybe.  If sales of 3.5 are declining across the industry, though, it could be like buggy whips in 1910.  It's not like buggy whip manufacturers went out of business all at the same time; the ones making the cheap, crappy buggy whips folded first, then the ones making decent, serviceable buggy whips, then the ones making the best, most well crafted buggy whips.  The better manufacturers actually should see a slight increase in sales at the beginning, as the bad companies with the lowest profit margins go under and the market shifts to the remaining players.Now, Paizo easily produces the best adventures for D&D, in both production quality and writing.  If anyone is going to make a viable system based on 3.5, it'll be them.  And they're still in a position to create 4e adventures if the market exists--in a field as reliant on freelancers as writing role playing games, you literally can just buy rules expertise.  But what gives me pause is the locking of their flagship property to the Pathfinder RPG, and the fact they're only going to have a vague idea of how well it's going to sell until 14 months after 4e launches.  That's not forever, but it's still a fairly long time, and it makes you wonder what made them so disgusted with 4e that they couldn't wait 3 months to see its reception in the marketplace.But who really knows?  They've clearly looked at the numbers and made their best guess, and that's much more likely to be better than my best guess.  And they could always announce the 4e version of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting in July after seeing the rules, or 4e could tank horribly, or maybe there's enough people who appreciate the quality of Paizo products that they can keep publishing adventures in 3.5 and still serve 80% of the 4e market.</blockquote>

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