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<blockquote data-quote="bss" data-source="post: 5801403" data-attributes="member: 6688749">As some of the above posts already indicated, that's the thing --- if they keep 4e support in DDI, they keep me as a customer. They keep me as a customer. That means I'm more likely to watch 5e and see if it immediately/eventually catches my interest. Maybe there's a process to wean my game onto 5e and the tools help with that.Turning off 4e is a &quot;you agree with our vision, or hit the bricks&quot; move. Binary. If I don't like 5e at that point, Wizards has nothing to offer me and I stop being a customer. I'll find other ways to keep playing 4e if that's what I choose, be it reverting to pencil and paper only, using other third-party character builders, writing my own, or breaking into their office and stealing their 4e databases (that's a joke). The point is, I've stopped giving Wizards money.There's a dollars and cents way to justify that decision (&quot;this has become too expensive to maintain for so few people&quot;) and a vendor fiat way to justify that decision (&quot;if you don't like 5e, we don't care about your money&quot;). Which way Wizards goes will impact many 4e fans, and again citing Pathfinder, they have seen what happens to a disenfranchised customer base --- their money goes elsewhere.And yes, when I speak of 4e support, I mean merely keeping the lights on and having the tools and content on &quot;4e's final day&quot; stay in their same state. Though it'd be awesome, and not necessarily an impossible idea, if they started releasing content that worked with either 4e or 5e (and that could even fit 5e's design mantra, if the 4e ruleset turns out to be that compatible).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bss, post: 5801403, member: 6688749"] As some of the above posts already indicated, that's the thing --- if they keep 4e support in DDI, they keep me as a customer. [i]They keep me as a customer.[/i] That means I'm more likely to watch 5e and see if it immediately/eventually catches my interest. Maybe there's a process to wean my game onto 5e and the tools help with that. Turning off 4e is a "you agree with our vision, or hit the bricks" move. Binary. If I don't like 5e at that point, Wizards has nothing to offer me and I stop being a customer. I'll find other ways to keep playing 4e if that's what I choose, be it reverting to pencil and paper only, using other third-party character builders, writing my own, or breaking into their office and stealing their 4e databases (that's a joke). The point is, I've stopped giving Wizards money. There's a dollars and cents way to justify that decision ("this has become too expensive to maintain for so few people") and a vendor fiat way to justify that decision ("if you don't like 5e, we don't care about your money"). Which way Wizards goes will impact many 4e fans, and again citing Pathfinder, they have seen what happens to a disenfranchised customer base --- their money goes elsewhere. And yes, when I speak of 4e support, I mean merely keeping the lights on and having the tools and content on "4e's final day" stay in their same state. Though it'd be awesome, and not necessarily an impossible idea, if they started releasing content that worked with either 4e or 5e (and that could even fit 5e's design mantra, if the 4e ruleset turns out to be [i]that[/i] compatible). [/QUOTE]

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