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My group just hit 5th level, most of their fights are either 80-90exp in value or ~120. Typically, they never fight anything greater than Level +2. So, an encounter might consist of quite a few "mooks", like 6-7 or one "leader" type that is L+1 or L+2 and some "mooks"/"adds".

The fights are tough, but my PCs often come out pretty unscathed. I very much like a system where the PCs are not, and never become, super heroes.

I don't think losing me as a customer will hurt their bottom line. I think losing a lot of people like me will though.

That would probably be true, but I highly doubt that's going to be the case. Even now, on ground zero/these forums, the number of posts in this threads are slowing down considerably. Whether or not you find Paizo's response/lack-there-of acceptable/unacceptable, I would imagine they've said/done all they're going to say/do about it.

I might be a fraction of their customer base but I spend on average $500 a year on their product. I did the math over the weekend, I've made $6000 of purchases just through this website. That's not even counting the Paizo products I've bought at FLGS.

The lowest estimate of Paizo's annual revenue of $9,500,000.

500/9,500,000 = 0.00005263157 -> x100 = ~%0.0053

Ill Gotten Gains wrote:

WormysQueue wrote:

So injustice only exists when it is done to people with world-wide name recognition? Is that your argument here?

No, just that I don't think a corporation is going to expend a lot of resources/time/energy to placate a fraction of their user base.

I guess I differ here fundamentally from most posters because I'm just completely uninterested in discussing the morality of her firing.

Either it was legal, in which case this is a non-issue for me; or it was illegal, in which case it just becomes a curiosity.

If you're uninterested in discussing the morality of her firing, why are you here discussing the morality of her firing?

I'm not - I don't believe any of my posts have been geared toward saying her firing was/wasn't justified.

So injustice only exists when it is done to people with world-wide name recognition? Is that your argument here?

No, just that I don't think a corporation is going to expend a lot of resources/time/energy to placate a fraction of their user base.

I guess I differ here fundamentally from most posters because I'm just completely uninterested in discussing the morality of her firing.

Either it was legal, in which case this is a non-issue for me; or it was illegal, in which case it just becomes a curiosity.

Paizo did in fact fire Sara Marie, that is not up for discussion.

There is no disagreement about whether or not she was fired. The question, if there even needs to be one, is why she was fired.

Ultimately, it's almost certainly a non-issue. It's impossible to know with any precision but I doubt that even .5% of Paizo's total user/customer base has any idea who this woman is.

Ill Gotten Gains wrote:

Paizo is not going to directly address any of this or make any public mea culpa. They're going to run out the clock as community engagement/interest in this wanes over time. I'm not sure how effective or healthy it is to continue to hang-wringing over this.

They have directly addressed some claims already so clearly there has been some effectiveness already seen. Whether they do more is a cost benefit analysis based on whether doing more is more profitable in the long run or not.

So far, hand-wringing has already gotten an HR employee on the table as the bare minimum.

Argh! Darn it. I fell for a throwaway account.

I'll be interested to see how everything has shaken out after the dust settles in a few months.

Just buy another bookshelf.

Paizo is not going to directly address any of this or make any public mea culpa. They're going to run out the clock as community engagement/interest in this wanes over time. I'm not sure how effective or healthy it is to continue to hang-wringing over this.

Neat