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<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 3764429" data-attributes="member: 16212">Ah. Missed your sarcasm there, then.Personally, I'm not concerned, for the same reasons as others in this thread. 3ed was a massive overhaul and 4ed doesn't appear to be. Not only that but Wizards have been using several products over the course of the last couple of years to judge the quality and response to a lot of the concepts now finding their way into 4ed. 'Now' seems about the right time for non-Wizards staff to get their grubby mits on the game, giving us around six months of external playtesting. Sounds about right.That, plus the entire RPG landscape is very different now. The uncertainty that WotC must have felt at releasing the 3rd Edition is a thing of the past. They know exactly how big their market is for 4ed, I'm sure, and the value of leaking tantalising tidbits is much less now than it was in 2000. Plus, with their own, much stronger web presence, it's hardly a surprise that they want to encourage traffic to wizards.com rather than the web site of some upstart's '3rd Edition News' reportage. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 3764429, member: 16212"] Ah. Missed your sarcasm there, then. Personally, I'm not concerned, for the same reasons as others in this thread. 3ed was a massive overhaul and 4ed doesn't appear to be. Not only that but Wizards have been using several products over the course of the last couple of years to judge the quality and response to a lot of the concepts now finding their way into 4ed. 'Now' seems about the right time for non-Wizards staff to get their grubby mits on the game, giving us around six months of external playtesting. Sounds about right. That, plus the entire RPG landscape is very different now. The uncertainty that WotC must have felt at releasing the 3rd Edition is a thing of the past. They know exactly how big their market is for 4ed, I'm sure, and the value of leaking tantalising tidbits is much less now than it was in 2000. Plus, with their own, much stronger web presence, it's hardly a surprise that they want to encourage traffic to wizards.com rather than the web site of some upstart's '3rd Edition News' reportage. :D [/QUOTE]

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