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<blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 8952955" data-attributes="member: 7038056">Which isn't saying the same thing as &quot;I think thier numbers will drop back to pre OGL&quot;. I can agree with the statement most of the players will end up going back to 5e for one reason or another though, especially people who only bought stuff out of anger instead of wanting to actually look for a different system. But that's not everyone.Paizo is kind of in a tough spot atm. They planned out 8 months of sales in their 4th print run and then sold through that stock in 2 weeks, so how many books do you print in the 5th print run? I mentioned this in another thread, but one of my FLGS had stocked something like 5 PF2e Core Rulebooks on release in 2019. They sold 3 prior to the OGL outrage, then finally sold the other 2 along with the rest of the PF2e core books they had from that initial shipment (Bestiary and Gamemastery Guides). I asked if they planned to order anything new and they said they weren't sure because they didn't want to get stuck with books they couldn't sell, so for now they're going to pay attention to customers asking for PF2e and monitor 5e sales to see if there's enough of a drop to warrant shifting shelf space. At least 1 other person here had a similar story, so I get FLGS's hesitation to stock Paizo stuff especially when the subscription program is such a good deal so that's tough to compete with. On the plus side for Paizo, the subscription program probably makes it pretty easy to identify their core audience. They also seem to have a good relationship with Foundry so I'd guess it's not terribly hard for them to find out how many people are playing on VTT.Entirely worth mentioning the FLGS I mentioned doesn't seem to sell a lot of TTRPG books in general. They seem to sell a lot of MtG, Pokemon cards, and Warhammer minis/painting supplies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Velderan, post: 8952955, member: 7038056"] Which isn't saying the same thing as "I think thier numbers will drop back to pre OGL". I can agree with the statement most of the players will end up going back to 5e for one reason or another though, especially people who only bought stuff out of anger instead of wanting to actually look for a different system. But that's not everyone. Paizo is kind of in a tough spot atm. They planned out 8 months of sales in their 4th print run and then sold through that stock in 2 weeks, so how many books do you print in the 5th print run? I mentioned this in another thread, but one of my FLGS had stocked something like 5 PF2e Core Rulebooks on release in 2019. They sold 3 prior to the OGL outrage, then finally sold the other 2 along with the rest of the PF2e core books they had from that initial shipment (Bestiary and Gamemastery Guides). I asked if they planned to order anything new and they said they weren't sure because they didn't want to get stuck with books they couldn't sell, so for now they're going to pay attention to customers asking for PF2e and monitor 5e sales to see if there's enough of a drop to warrant shifting shelf space. At least 1 other person here had a similar story, so I get FLGS's hesitation to stock Paizo stuff especially when the subscription program is such a good deal so that's tough to compete with. On the plus side for Paizo, the subscription program probably makes it pretty easy to identify their core audience. They also seem to have a good relationship with Foundry so I'd guess it's not terribly hard for them to find out how many people are playing on VTT. Entirely worth mentioning the FLGS I mentioned doesn't seem to sell a lot of TTRPG books in general. They seem to sell a lot of MtG, Pokemon cards, and Warhammer minis/painting supplies. [/QUOTE]

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