Actually, our opinion does matter.

[Lanefan]

can you pass along the titles of these?

I'd hazard a guess that Mr. Grump is referring to Worlds and Monsters and Races and Classes, the two preview books released a few months in advance of 4e's first core drop. In Canada they sold for $20 each at the time.

I never bought Races and Classes, though I looked through it. I did buy Worlds and Monsters mostly for the exceptional artwork; though by this point I already knew I would not be jumping to 4e.

Lanefan

 

[Crazy Jerome]

If Your Corp. designed, manufactured, and sold revethaw's, and you only made and sold red ones, and every year you moved about 100,000 units. You decide to switch up, plenty of customer feedback states thata change would do the company good. You make the bold decision to switch to blue revethaws.

Now, how does your answer change when revethaws are something that don't break. Once you sold your 100,000 reds, you are mostly tapped out. Everyone that wants one right now, has one, and basically future sales will be replacements for dog-chewed revethaws and the like.

If the company can move 100k red ones and 250k blue ones (or vice versa, doesn't matter), then they will open up a second factory and move both, at least if 100k red ones was profitable before blues ones were even an issue. OTOH, if they stipulation is true that, "they can't do both", then it is because one isn't profitable anymore--as in, it doesn't break, and most sales have already been made.

If WotC could move, over some reasonable time period, 100k 3.5 books and 250k 4E books, or 100k 4E books and 250 k 3.5 books--they'd very happily sell both, and "internal compeition" be damned.

 

[jaredy]

What I've noticed is that GMs post and lurk messageboards, usually it isn't just players. And GMs are the ones who will be running the games. So yes, the internet messageboards are generally a good place to get a more or less accurate opinion on products and improvements.