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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6228937" data-attributes="member: 7006">Don't you think that if WotC NEEDED to sell more RPG product right now, that they would?  After all... they did it last time.  They produced several books for 3.5 that were random new ideas or basic adaptations of what they were doing for 4E.  Book of Nine Swords, Magic of Incarnum etc.  They were wringing out that towel as much as they could while working on their new product... the one who three core books were going to make them more money than anything else they were going to produce.Now sure... you can make the argument that the reason they aren't producing any products right now is because nothing they make is going to be worth the money spent to create it.  Whether that's because that's a "failure of the 4E game" or merely because all the worthwhile supplemental books have already been made is up for debate.  But the flip side is that the reason they aren't producing anything "new" right now now is because they have enough other streams of revenue from D&D that they don't HAVE to spend money making other obsolete books.  The board games, the DDI subscriptions, all the old the stuff selling on dndclassics.  That might more than cover the expenses of the R&D department that they can put ALL their efforts into working on the new edition, rather than splitting time creating a couple new things to bring in those last gasps of coinage from the previous edition.But regardless of why they are or are not making new product now... that still doesn't explain why producing a new set of core books is a bad idea.  Or a financially unsound idea.  Or an idea that will negatively affect WotC other than a bunch of gals and guys being mad at them because they aren't supporting the version of the game they want them to.</blockquote>

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