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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 5777110" data-attributes="member: 34865">Because that's the way WIZARDS wanted it.  Not because that's how we wanted it.  WOTC looked at 75% of their market base* and said "go away".It's not 1978 any more, though, Wiz.  "Very little money" can make or break your company in RPGs.Except not, because that's not what they're trying to do any more.  Firing a customer base with every new release and hoping some come to ask for their "jobs" back is colossally stupid.  I can go get parts for a '71 El Camino at the CHEVROLET dealership.  Some, anyway.  I can get more from authorized 3rd party vendors.  What GM hasn't done is said "What, you don't wanna buy a new car?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> you, then!"  And yet 41 years of models and makes stand between that year and now.  And there we are.Robert Plant never came out and said "We'd prefer it if our fans quit listening to everything prior to our new album."  FRITO LAY hasn't quietly stopped making everything but Sweet Chili Doritos.  Hell if I plugged in my ol' Pentium and installed WINDOWS 98 and did auto-update I'd get six years worth of patches to download - just for the OS itself.  Apps that run on it are still supported.  WIZARDS OF THE COAST isn't trying some radical new thing that may or may not work.  They're doing what sane businesses have been doing since products and services were offered for sale in these modern times.  They are stopping the alienation of previous customers, and are at least from where I'm sitting no longer going to treat those customers like pariahs.I think there's going to finally be a real, honest attempt at a "big tent".  Even if the tent itself is crowded with 4e and D&Dn, the yard its in won't be closed off to myself and other fans of older editions.That's what I think people who play 4e need to recognize - this isn't an end, it's a continuance.  For D&D 3.5, 3.0, AD&D 2nd edition and AD&D it's a continuance whose commencement has been years stalled.  WIZARDS OF THE COAST is doing the right thing, they're opening the gate, even if D&Dn isn't the game, support for "your" D&D looks like it'll be there.It is literally win-win....*=Fully (and rightly, and accurately) expecting that 75% of that 75% would move to the next edition.</blockquote>

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