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Originally Posted by ggroy  I suppose with all the bloat produced for 3.5E by WotC's proliferation of their own splatbooks, it made 3.5E D&D more and more into a huge mess. Perhaps in effect they were trying to "destroy" 3.5E, to make way for a 4E.
I imagine the easiest way to "destroy" 4E, would be for WotC to create more and more bloat until the game is huge mess after 5 or 6 years. By then, it becomes viable and more palatable for a 5E to be introduced. |
I was recently wondering along similar lines, too. Although I don't think they were trying to make a "mess" with all the splatbook releases, the only messes came from a few poorly thought out rules/feats/classes/spells in many of the books. I was just thinking:
It's really annoying how people say
3E had an 8 year life cycle. It's still here, Paizo's making a revision version of it...and frankly, I don't think that the well had dried up on supplements. I do realize that putting out so many books at such a great pace surely shortened its lifespan...is that
WotC's plan? They're releasing an awful lot of books for
4E, and... (I'm really not sure about this, could be wrong) aren't they putting out a new PHB every single year? Maybe the plan is to suck as much money from a new edition of rules as they can in the shortest possible amount of time (money/time), and then leave its dried up husk by the roadside so they can put out the new edition and start the process all over again.
Just to sort of copy/paste my thoughts. I’ll have to wait and see what happens with
4E. It’ll be sad if that really is the plan, and
4E doesn’t even last a decade (or even 8 years like
3E!). Hopefully they’re content to make moderate profits over a long time, because I’d be amazed if they don’t, release 5E in a few years, and people don’t catch onto their game and stop buying…
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