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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4519147" data-attributes="member: 710">Sure, people will buy it - but will enough people do so? A certain amount of product cost will be fixed since you invest X time and Y people for Z money (and print it for a relative fixed cost, too). If not enough people buy this, you no longer make enough money with it to justify the expenses. Especially if you know there is an alternative that will make you more money. (If a new edition couldn't sell, there wouldn't be one.)I think someone has put up a list of &quot;issues&quot; with 3.x that seem to require fixing according to a large number of 3.x &quot;users&quot; (DMs and players). I wish I had the link... *wishes very hard*Because in the eyes of WotC, me (and people like me), the &quot;errors and glitches&quot; in 3.5 where to substantial to create yet another &quot;hotfix&quot;. Either you used the system as it was, or start anew. At some point, trying to fix it just doesn't cut it any more. And a 3.6, 3.75, 3.8 and 3.9 will only give you diminishing returns. Pathfinder works (at least I hope it does) because it doesn't have to make money for WotC, it &quot;just&quot; has to make money for Paizo. They did all they could within the constraints of their business plans and their designer abilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4519147, member: 710"] Sure, people will buy it - but will enough people do so? A certain amount of product cost will be fixed since you invest X time and Y people for Z money (and print it for a relative fixed cost, too). If not enough people buy this, you no longer make enough money with it to justify the expenses. Especially if you know there is an alternative that will make you more money. (If a new edition couldn't sell, there wouldn't be one.) I think someone has put up a list of "issues" with 3.x that seem to require fixing according to a large number of 3.x "users" (DMs and players). I wish I had the link... *wishes very hard* Because in the eyes of WotC, me (and people like me), the "errors and glitches" in 3.5 where to substantial to create yet another "hotfix". Either you used the system as it was, or start anew. At some point, trying to fix it just doesn't cut it any more. And a 3.6, 3.75, 3.8 and 3.9 will only give you diminishing returns. Pathfinder works (at least I hope it does) because it doesn't have to make money for WotC, it "just" has to make money for Paizo. They did all they could within the constraints of their business plans and their designer abilities. [/QUOTE]

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