Stormonu
NeoGrognard
If there's any concern, it will be whether the new options/builds that show up are significantly better than what is already present. For example, if the daily-less fighter build outshines the PHB1 fighter, practically no one will play the old fighter (there will always be diehards, though) and you have effectively "4.5"ed the class in a sort of ninja style ("You can still play it," cries WotC, even though they know almost everyone will want the new version and all new output will be catered toward the new option/build).
On the other hand, if the new options/build are in the same ballpark, but just different, then there's nothing to sweat over, it just becomes repackaging/addition to the system. The only cause for concern is for the completist, who wants everything put out for D&D on their shelves and grumbles about "repurchasing" content.
One thing that always gets me about D&D edition changes is that I haven't seen half the vitrol over other game system shifts (with perhaps the exception of oWoD vs. nWoD) as I have with D&D. On other systems, folks just either seem to ignore the new stuff and play with what they have or quietly buy into the new system, good or bad. I think part of that is how infrequently D&D has changed editions over the years; most game systems I know were in their 2nd to 3rd edition in about the time D&D does a 1/2 edition shift. Folks attached to D&D seem to take edition shifts to heart, as if WotC's coming out their house to kick the door in, confiscate the old books and laugh villianously as they require you to buy new books at gunpoint - then leave your play area trashed (I admit, sometimes I've acted like that were happening to me).
On the other hand, if the new options/build are in the same ballpark, but just different, then there's nothing to sweat over, it just becomes repackaging/addition to the system. The only cause for concern is for the completist, who wants everything put out for D&D on their shelves and grumbles about "repurchasing" content.
One thing that always gets me about D&D edition changes is that I haven't seen half the vitrol over other game system shifts (with perhaps the exception of oWoD vs. nWoD) as I have with D&D. On other systems, folks just either seem to ignore the new stuff and play with what they have or quietly buy into the new system, good or bad. I think part of that is how infrequently D&D has changed editions over the years; most game systems I know were in their 2nd to 3rd edition in about the time D&D does a 1/2 edition shift. Folks attached to D&D seem to take edition shifts to heart, as if WotC's coming out their house to kick the door in, confiscate the old books and laugh villianously as they require you to buy new books at gunpoint - then leave your play area trashed (I admit, sometimes I've acted like that were happening to me).