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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Brennan" data-source="post: 3954410" data-attributes="member: 35183">Yeah, but the sentence is tied to the preceding paragraph, so I'm not actually saying anything different than you are. All I'm saying is that WotC's staff likes 4e and they're not going to say it's not ready for publication--in fact, I would be surprised if any of them think they might NOT be ready to launch on time. They might say &quot;I wish we had a couple more months to polish this up&quot; but the people who say &quot;sorry, can't do that, we have to hit the dates&quot; will override that kind of weak resistance. The thing is, 4e has already been better playtested than most RPG products ever are. Even if it's not as well-constructed as say, 3e (and I'm not denying that 3e had issues) it will take a while for people to find the broken bits and for those problems to become widely known.I'm actually pretty negative about 4e--I don't like most of the changes in direction we've seen so far and I think it probably will be buggier than its predecessor. All I'm saying is that people who think that any of those bugs are going to push back the release date don't understand how projects like this work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kevin Brennan, post: 3954410, member: 35183"] Yeah, but the sentence is tied to the preceding paragraph, so I'm not actually saying anything different than you are. All I'm saying is that WotC's staff likes 4e and they're not going to say it's not ready for publication--in fact, I would be surprised if any of them think they might NOT be ready to launch on time. They might say "I wish we had a couple more months to polish this up" but the people who say "sorry, can't do that, we have to hit the dates" will override that kind of weak resistance. The thing is, 4e has already been better playtested than most RPG products ever are. Even if it's not as well-constructed as say, 3e (and I'm not denying that 3e had issues) it will take a while for people to find the broken bits and for those problems to become widely known. I'm actually pretty negative about 4e--I don't like most of the changes in direction we've seen so far and I think it probably will be buggier than its predecessor. All I'm saying is that people who think that any of those bugs are going to push back the release date don't understand how projects like this work. [/QUOTE]

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