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<blockquote data-quote="tlantl" data-source="post: 5971418" data-attributes="member: 55225">I think the issue is not whether to support all editions, it's how can we (Wotc) get the biggest return for our investment in developer costs. D&amp;D N is just another instance of the five year cycle of releasing another set of rules for D&amp;D. The essentials expansion failed to draw a crowd and 4e isn't selling as well as they would have liked so the idea is to try to unite the fan base with a version of the game that will appeal to people that 4e doesn't, as well as those who found pathfinder to be a better fit, and all of the rest of us who have found WotC's versions of D&amp;D to be a poor substitute for TSR D&amp;D.D&amp;D N is a marketing scheme that is attempting to get as many D&amp;D players to buy into it as possible. Supporting the older games won't make them as much money as selling us all a new system. I don't need them to sell me several dozen 1e or 3e books I already have them. I don't buy their adventures because the suck, and I like to write my own. I get a lot of my enjoyment of the game drawing maps and filling in the areas with traps, treasure, and monsters. As far as I can see there's not enough market to justify not making a new edition. I guess that there's just going to be one more chapter of edition wars coming and a further division of the base as D&amp;D N fails to make 4e layers happy, or the vancian haters or the at-will haters or any other splinter segment of the hobby. It's written in plain sight on the wall. Each faction wants things their way and this, I believe, will be the straw that breaks the camel's back</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tlantl, post: 5971418, member: 55225"] I think the issue is not whether to support all editions, it's how can we (Wotc) get the biggest return for our investment in developer costs. D&D N is just another instance of the five year cycle of releasing another set of rules for D&D. The essentials expansion failed to draw a crowd and 4e isn't selling as well as they would have liked so the idea is to try to unite the fan base with a version of the game that will appeal to people that 4e doesn't, as well as those who found pathfinder to be a better fit, and all of the rest of us who have found WotC's versions of D&D to be a poor substitute for TSR D&D. D&D N is a marketing scheme that is attempting to get as many D&D players to buy into it as possible. Supporting the older games won't make them as much money as selling us [i]all[/i] a new system. I don't need them to sell me several dozen 1e or 3e books I already have them. I don't buy their adventures because the suck, and I like to write my own. I get a lot of my enjoyment of the game drawing maps and filling in the areas with traps, treasure, and monsters. As far as I can see there's not enough market to justify not making a new edition. I guess that there's just going to be one more chapter of edition wars coming and a further division of the base as D&D N fails to make 4e layers happy, or the vancian haters or the at-will haters or any other splinter segment of the hobby. It's written in plain sight on the wall. Each faction wants things their way and this, I believe, will be the straw that breaks the camel's back [/QUOTE]

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