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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6218534" data-attributes="member: 5143">No, disliking 4e doesn't make someone an antigamer.  There were people who hated D&D all along.  They played other games.My problem wasn't that Paizo published a game.  It's that they published 3.5e D&D...again.  And they published it based on a knee jerk reaction to 4e and an aversion to change.  Aversion to change is a really common human trait.  It rarely does us any good.  However, it's really easy to predict that given the choice to change or stay the same most people will stay the same unless there is a REALLY good reason to change.So, when 4e came out...the easiest thing for people to do was to stick with what they knew: 3.5e.  But there was a really good reason to switch: No more 3.5e books and the majority of their friends hopping on the 4e bandwagon.  Paizo gave everyone an easy out by making it easy to avoid change: Play their game that was almost identical to 3.5e D&D.Sure, it was a great strategy for making money.  But it made the community fall apart.  It caused the edition wars to be louder and more angry than they ever would have been without it.A number of my friends were RIGHT on the edge of playing 4e with us, they had huge doubts about the game because of how different it was but they were willing to give it a try until they heard about Pathfinder.  Then almost all of them decided that it was better to stick with a game system that was more like what they were used to.  A game system that promised it was completely compatible with 3.5e so they didn't even have to buy new books, they could just play characters directly out of the 3.5e PHB(this was later changed, but it was one of the first advertised traits of Pathfinder).  Most of them didn't even try 4e because of that.  They had just "heard bad things" and therefore wouldn't even keep an open mind.  I don't even see half of them anymore because most of the time we spent together was gaming and we no longer play the same games.</blockquote>

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