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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6138328" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>It's actually because of the online and app component that I wouldn't be surprised if the game <em>doesn't</em> in fact get released at GenCon 2014, but rather later on.</p><p></p><p>It begs the question, what is more important? Releasing the game as soon as it is ready... or releasing the game concurrent with its online and app components? With 4E... there was quite a bit of time after the game was released before we started getting the character builder, the monster builder, the compendium, the online tabletop et. al. That made the collective impact of each component much, much less than it would have been had it been released as one giant package. The opt-in to the new edition would have been much greater had the RPG and its full online suite been available together upon release, I think.</p><p></p><p>So *if* online, app, and DDI subscriptions are to be considered an important part of 5E's game structure... they will need to lock down most of the mechanical elements early enough so that they have the time to get the online components working and solid (if they hope to release the whole suite at once). And if they aren't already getting the software architecture built behind-the-scenes right now... the actual RPG will have to be held back for quite a while from the bookshelves as programming fnally commences. The game might not thus get released until 2015.</p><p></p><p>Personally... I think that *if* the online component of the game is just as important a feature of the new edition as the actual rulebook... WotC cannot afford to release the books prior to having most of the online suite ready to go. Sure... those of us on the messageboards will decry the fact we're waiting an extra year with just the playtest materials to tide us over... but us messageboard people are but a small handful of the large group of players they want playing the game... so they need to make sure they have a complete 5E package ready to go to make everyone else outside of us messageboard die-hards say "Holy crap, that's a lot of game stuff! I gotta try it!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6138328, member: 7006"] It's actually because of the online and app component that I wouldn't be surprised if the game [I]doesn't[/I] in fact get released at GenCon 2014, but rather later on. It begs the question, what is more important? Releasing the game as soon as it is ready... or releasing the game concurrent with its online and app components? With 4E... there was quite a bit of time after the game was released before we started getting the character builder, the monster builder, the compendium, the online tabletop et. al. That made the collective impact of each component much, much less than it would have been had it been released as one giant package. The opt-in to the new edition would have been much greater had the RPG and its full online suite been available together upon release, I think. So *if* online, app, and DDI subscriptions are to be considered an important part of 5E's game structure... they will need to lock down most of the mechanical elements early enough so that they have the time to get the online components working and solid (if they hope to release the whole suite at once). And if they aren't already getting the software architecture built behind-the-scenes right now... the actual RPG will have to be held back for quite a while from the bookshelves as programming fnally commences. The game might not thus get released until 2015. Personally... I think that *if* the online component of the game is just as important a feature of the new edition as the actual rulebook... WotC cannot afford to release the books prior to having most of the online suite ready to go. Sure... those of us on the messageboards will decry the fact we're waiting an extra year with just the playtest materials to tide us over... but us messageboard people are but a small handful of the large group of players they want playing the game... so they need to make sure they have a complete 5E package ready to go to make everyone else outside of us messageboard die-hards say "Holy crap, that's a lot of game stuff! I gotta try it!" [/QUOTE]
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