Pathfinder 2 Playtest 2nd Edition: If it ain't broke, still fix it.

[Rhedyn]

I call that an internal playtest and building up hype. Why - what do you call them?

With games you playtest early and often. Playing with employees and select sycophants from your forums is not good feedback.

I understand delaying the announcement of PF2e because as soon as that was announced mainly people cancelled their subscriptions and became Paizo anti-fans.

It's the months of boring blog post that really rub me the wrong way. As soon as you announce the game, release what you have and start iterating. All the blog post did was highlight to me that Paizo has no idea what fun abilities are. I do not care how you rewrite the game, +1 on a d20 roll is not a fun ability.

But the big downside of all that internal playtesting is that PF1 suffered. The last class they released, the Shifter, was just terrible and would cause anyone to really question if Paizo knows what they are doing anymore.