Keep your chin up, Paizo.

[Steve Geddes]

I think some of the clues PF2 was in the works were also misread as being “Starfinder is having a bigger effect on Pathfinder than expected”.

[Mark Seifter]

RicoTheBold wrote:

Mark Seifter wrote:

You're most certainly welcome! And now I'm actually curious from the last bit, how much time were you figuring we spent on it?

Mark, I'm concerned that you're too helpful on the forums. If you keep providing useful insights, it will disappoint those that want to speculate about the designers' motives. Not just motives, but clarifications on the rules, too. You're taking away the fun of learning. In a few months, people will have the playtest rules, and they won't even enjoy reading them because they will have already learned everything about the playtest by reading the blogs and all of your posts. On top of that, you and the rest of the staff are consistently friendly and good-natured, and everyone knows that conflict is the very soul of a good story. How can there be heroes of the great flame wars when you work to de-escalate every issue with understanding and reason?

In all seriousness, thanks for being awesome generally. I read every post you make, because they're all worth reading. I know that just trying to keep up a little with the announcements and people's reactions to them takes me a few hours a week that I really don't have. Your replies are also a good indicator of other users' threads or insightful comments worth reading that I would never have looked at. I do the same for a few other staffers right now, but for sheer volume of fresh playtest insights, you're definitely the guy to follow.

I apologize for nothing!

[SilverliteSword]

Mark Seifter wrote:

Arachnofiend wrote:

MMCJawa wrote:

well the good news is...I think with goblins and paladins out of the way, and at least the major mechanical changes somewhat introduced (Resonance, proficiency skill system, actions), most or all of the major grenades have been lobbed?

Although I could just be super naive here...

Monks could potentially flare up the alignment discussion a second time if they end up being Lawful only again.

From what I have seen of most class blogs, other than exceptions like the paladin, they start with both positive and negative feedback from people who are avid followers of the PF2 blogs with various opinions and go along well with some good discourse for a time, but then eventually the people who don't like the blog content are the only ones still posting while most others have moved on. I don't see that really changing for the other classes, so I think every class is eventually going to get some grar.

Yeah. It happens.

I can't speak for everyone, but I can say that my bark is worse than my bite. I may have a lot to say on the forums, and not all of it praise, but it is precisely *because* I am so stoked for PF2! If I wasn't excited I wouldn't be here at all, but I'm excited to check the blog posts every week.

Keep up the good work guys. I can't promise not to keep barking at you (in fact other things will probably rile me up again), but rest assured that I am excited for August!

[Jason S]

I think they're doing a good job and are making the right overall design decisions.

Having said that, even people that are great at their job need to be double checked at times, or need to think about things again, from a different perspective. You make better decisions that way. And in the end they can be content in those decisions. I know, because I have to make my own design decisions everyday, and I greatly value customer feedback.