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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Midknightsun" data-source="post: 3706666" data-attributes="member: 46459"><p>Yes, its been pretty clear that D&D is not their big money maker, but that doesn't mean they don't want it to be so (or at least better), or that they've resigned themselves to that.  Besides, I see very little MORE that 3.5 coulda put out that would have really sold enough to even pay for the investment.  It had met its peak limit, despite what some said about the particular setting book #50, or race book #75 that they thought was essential to their collections, and therefore had to be made.  Companies For Profit have a tendency to cut programs that show a consistent loss in. . . .profit.  Maybe WotC is trying to revitalize the line to keep from getting the axe by Hasbro.  Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but I can't fault them for this at all.  They are not our mother, they are a business that is trying to sustain itself.  Apparently, their number crunchers came to the conclusion that a new edition would help boost sales, that it was worth the potential loss of some customers (which almost always happens in a changeover) and so that's what they went for.  I really am having a hard time with the perception that D&D is supposed to be some kind of charity business, really, they can't sustain like that and not have D&D eyed up for the chopping block.  Welcome to capitalism.  It aint always pretty, but its what we got.</p></blockquote><p></p>