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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5965649" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>The sky is falling.</p><p></p><p>Pen and paper RPGs have had their day, and although there is still a market out there for small companies to make decent money on them, a company the size of WotC (with the demands made by Hasbro) simply cannot make enough money from them.</p><p></p><p>And so they've been trying various things to keep them afloat - a new Red Box to recapture lapsed players, a new 5e to recapture old-edition players, a DDI to bring in lots of subscription money, Fortune Cards to introduce a CCG element to the game.</p><p></p><p>I expect 5e to be a good <em>game</em>. I expect it to fail to recapture any significant number of old-edition players, to fail to end the Edition Wars, and thus to fail to do <em>significantly</em> better than 4e did.</p><p></p><p>By 2015, D&D will be effectively dead as a pen-and-paper RPG, at least by that name. It will live on in the form of Pathfinder, the various retro-clones, 3rd party support for 4e, but not as "Dungeons & Dragons" as we know it.</p><p></p><p>(And I'm not even sure WotC have done anything fundamentally <em>wrong</em> along the way. They certainly made some missteps with the DDI, and were desperately unlucky in some other regards, but they were probably on the right track. I think they've just been hit with impossible expectations for a product that has simply had its day.)</p><p></p><p>Oh, and yes, I <em>really</em> hope I'm wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5965649, member: 22424"] The sky is falling. Pen and paper RPGs have had their day, and although there is still a market out there for small companies to make decent money on them, a company the size of WotC (with the demands made by Hasbro) simply cannot make enough money from them. And so they've been trying various things to keep them afloat - a new Red Box to recapture lapsed players, a new 5e to recapture old-edition players, a DDI to bring in lots of subscription money, Fortune Cards to introduce a CCG element to the game. I expect 5e to be a good [i]game[/i]. I expect it to fail to recapture any significant number of old-edition players, to fail to end the Edition Wars, and thus to fail to do [i]significantly[/i] better than 4e did. By 2015, D&D will be effectively dead as a pen-and-paper RPG, at least by that name. It will live on in the form of Pathfinder, the various retro-clones, 3rd party support for 4e, but not as "Dungeons & Dragons" as we know it. (And I'm not even sure WotC have done anything fundamentally [i]wrong[/i] along the way. They certainly made some missteps with the DDI, and were desperately unlucky in some other regards, but they were probably on the right track. I think they've just been hit with impossible expectations for a product that has simply had its day.) Oh, and yes, I [i]really[/i] hope I'm wrong. [/QUOTE]
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