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I know this is a problem staff is aware of... but I feel its worth raising again. Without naming names, there has been a user who has rated every PF2 product 1 or 2 stars without any comment. I just went to check Rusthenge to see if I should pick it up and noticed there is now a second user doing the exact same thing.

Now, I'm pretty good at ignoring this, but it is annoying, and it continues it is going to increasingly hurt customer QoL by skewing star rating. I know there's a hope this gets resolved when the website gets upgraded and policing review can be fraught... but is there anything that can be done in the meanwhile? These are clearly bad-faith reviews by people who haven't actually bought all the books they are reviewing.


Paizo is the most profitable they've ever been. The hilarious thing is that person is wasting their keystrokes


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While I don’t entirely disagree, Rusthenge has a 3.5 average rather than 5.0. That won’t drive Paizo under, but a) it may have an impact on sales and, more importantly, b) it is extremely frustrating.


WWHsmackdown wrote:
Paizo is the most profitable they've ever been.

Interesting. Out of curiosity, you have anything to support that claim?

As far as I know, Paizo is a privately held company, and as such doesn't publicly share sales or profitability information.


bugleyman wrote:
WWHsmackdown wrote:
Paizo is the most profitable they've ever been.

Interesting. Out of curiosity, you have anything to support that claim?

As far as I know, Paizo is a privately held company, and as such doesn't publicly share sales or profitability information.

Just what they've repeatedly said here in the forums and the common sense of 5e exploding, expanding the market in the last decade to a ridiculous number of ttrpgs players compared to pre 2014 levels.


WWHsmackdown wrote:
Just what they've repeatedly said here in the forums and the common sense of 5e exploding, expanding the market in the last decade to a ridiculous number of ttrpgs players compared to pre 2014 levels.

Do you have a link to any posts about Paizo's profitability here in the forums? I'm genuinely curious what they've said, because in my experience, they play things like that close to the chest.

As for the size of the market corresponding to profitability, I'm afraid that doesn't really follow.

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