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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 5962818" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I think for WOTC, it is more than academic. This is information they probably want and need. They can't sample every gamer, but they probably can get a large representative sampling. It would just be more data among many. My personal opinion is that if you polled most gamers, the majority would say 4E is the most different (that is just asking the general question and not even getting into skills and powers or tome of battle---just for a general impression), but whether this was a positive or negative development would probably be much closer to 50-50. Regardless of how much a radical overhaul 4e is or is not there is clearly a substantial number of gamers who want Next to continue a more 4E trajectory. I am not one of them, but I can see they exist and have to be considered in the development of Next.</p><p></p><p>The problem WOTC faces is the 4E folks, the 3E folks and the Ad&d folks often want things that are completely oppositional. One group wants divine heal only, another wants non divine healers; one group wants one day heals another wants week ir more heals, one group wants each class to have powers and abilities, another group doesn't want this; some want the line between magic ad mundane blurred, others want a barrier between the two; some want daily or encounnter powers for mundanes, others refuse this....</p><p>It goes on and on. I am probably forgetting stuff. Whether 4e or 3e was a more radical break or not, you still have to deal with these oppositional preferences. I do think it is in their interest to understand perceptions about changes between editions (because it may give them a sense about how a 2E player might react to 3e elements or 4e elements). Beyond that though I dont think it really helps either camp's cause much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 5962818, member: 85555"] I think for WOTC, it is more than academic. This is information they probably want and need. They can't sample every gamer, but they probably can get a large representative sampling. It would just be more data among many. My personal opinion is that if you polled most gamers, the majority would say 4E is the most different (that is just asking the general question and not even getting into skills and powers or tome of battle---just for a general impression), but whether this was a positive or negative development would probably be much closer to 50-50. Regardless of how much a radical overhaul 4e is or is not there is clearly a substantial number of gamers who want Next to continue a more 4E trajectory. I am not one of them, but I can see they exist and have to be considered in the development of Next. The problem WOTC faces is the 4E folks, the 3E folks and the Ad&d folks often want things that are completely oppositional. One group wants divine heal only, another wants non divine healers; one group wants one day heals another wants week ir more heals, one group wants each class to have powers and abilities, another group doesn't want this; some want the line between magic ad mundane blurred, others want a barrier between the two; some want daily or encounnter powers for mundanes, others refuse this.... It goes on and on. I am probably forgetting stuff. Whether 4e or 3e was a more radical break or not, you still have to deal with these oppositional preferences. I do think it is in their interest to understand perceptions about changes between editions (because it may give them a sense about how a 2E player might react to 3e elements or 4e elements). Beyond that though I dont think it really helps either camp's cause much. [/QUOTE]
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