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So anytime I see a change in any system I play, I usually have the reaction of either "Oh yeah, that's been an issue for a while, glad they finally got around to it" or "Why did they spend time and effort changing that? What that really a priority?" For me, the soul cage change was more of the latter. It does provide some clarity in the differences between items but I can think of a dozen changes or clarifications that would make more creative and mechanical sense.

... exactly how much time and effort do you think is spent on "we're going to call them soul cages instead of phylacteries going forward"? Because it ain't much. It's certainly less than the cumulative time and effort this thread has spent talking about it.

Staffan Johansson wrote:

diversity is a good thing

I would agree with the caveat that it occur organically. This really comes down to a very simple evaluation on a personal level—which do you prefer: equality of opportunity or equality of outcome. How you decide that goes to inform virtually all of your socio-political positions

The fact that many people operate under the incredibly laughable belief that we actually HAVE anything remotely resembling equality of opportunity is part of the problem to begin with.

Once upon a time, I would have been astonished at the lengths people will go to hold onto language not because they actually like it, but because they're offended that somebody else might not want it used. Seriously, if it's such a minor thing to you, and somebody else is bothered by it, then why are you so incapable of basic empathy as to take the minor effort to shift?

And that's aside from the claims of pandering as if it's completely impossible that people putting out the product are incapable of simply independently deciding it's something they don't want to use anymore.

The Fry quote is honestly hilarious to me, because that's exactly what it looks like from the other side- a bunch of people throwing childish whining fits over someone making a minor request. Why are you *so* attached to not just having the *right to* offend people, but to actually doing so?

In regards to the freelancers. Unfortunately they can find other freelancers. If the freelancers stop work they could look for other freelancers and or redistribute work to staff. I surely hope that does not happen.

It's not an "if" they stop work- they already have. A huge amount of content that was already mid-production (in at least one case virtually completely finished) is simply not available to Paizo right now, and if they want to get those products out without convincing the current freelancers to return, they'll have to start those from scratch.

As for finding other ones.... it's a much smaller pool of talent than you might think, especially when it comes to people that can be trusted to reliably put out an acceptable end result. (As for redistributing to staff- most of the internal staff don't even *do the same job* as the freelancers they hire. "Game developer" is not a single, fungible job where you can move any given worker to any given task.)

Unfortunate, but not at all unexpected. I tend to tack 6-12 months onto any project completion estimate to begin with, so it's barely even a delay. XD

You definitely shouldn’t handwave it away as a nonissue. It’s an issue and I wasn’t attempting to dismiss anyone’s perspective.

There’s just a reason behind how things are that many may be unaware of (the “why don’t we all get PDFs at the first day of the shipping window?” question comes up a lot).

I quoted you, but I didn’t mean it to come off as a challenge - sorry if that’s how it sounded.

I was more offering some perspective into the discussion from someone who has placed a thousand orders, (with over a hundred of them subscriptions). Based on my sample, the system works pretty well, even if there are the occasional unlucky runs of three delayed months in a row from time to time. I also personally think it’s improving over the long term - something that’s hard to see for those who maybe signed up at PF2’s launch. (Again not directed at you specifically but more just words into the general hubbub of conversation).

I appreciate the clarification, and I'm sorry my reply was that hostile in tone.

I guess... when I really concentrate on what's bugging me about all this, it's not even that the stuff is late. It's that even when the system is *working*, items that could be delivered with near-perfect consistency of date- the PDFs- aren't. I'm aware that getting all the shipping labels printed and attached and orders sent out is a massive enough undertaking that it'd be silly to want a very short timeframe, but the PDFs.... I would happily accept getting those on release date if their delivery were separate and we could expect them with complete consistency ON the release date. The current system where we can get them one to two weeks early is... nice, but the *possibility* of it taking this long when *physical* shipping has issues is just baffling.

If you have a subscription to something that has instant delivery, then it should be delivered by *at least* the day it's publicly available, regardless of issues with the other items. That's not an unreasonable expectation.

One day, I will be near the front of the queue... but that day is not today. o7