ShinHakkaider
Adventurer
I don't think you are right.
The nature of 3PPs certainly changed because THEY got burned with 3.5.
But I'd say my wotc/3PP usage went from 70/30 pre-3.5 to 20/80 post 3.5.
And people I've talked to seem to be in the same ballpark.
Perhaps I'm in a very happy subset of the overall market. But that's my view.
That was most definitely the case for me. I mean I still bought some of the 3.5 stuff because I really didn't see the change over from 3.0 to 3.5 as the fricking earth shattering deal breaker that some people did. I did buy heavily from Malhavoc, Goodman, Fantasy Flight and Necromancer Games. Having been burnt by Mongoose I didn't write off all third parties I just wrote off the companies that I felt had bad stuff.