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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IanB" data-source="post: 4007556" data-attributes="member: 1473">Indeed, SWG's NGE isn't a good model for this.The problem with the NGE was simple:SWG had a ton of subscribers. Over time, huge numbers of them left because of the various problems. Once that happened, the only people left were people who liked the game as it was. So instituting the NGE was guaranteed to piss off the only existing customers there were. On top of that, when people leave an MMO, they generally go to a new one and invest a lot of time and/or money there - and newer MMOs have a built-in advantage in terms of technology and design compared to old ones, so any change made to an *old* MMO has to be incredibly awesome to draw people back from what is usually a superior play experience to what they remember from the old game.However in the case of FR and 4e, I would bet good money that most of the people who stopped playing/buying FR didn't ditch D&D itself - and I'll bet there's another significant chunk who have issues with the FR as they currently stand but are still playing there, because ultimately what setting you choose to play in is up to the DM or group, not most individual players. So the barrier for returning to FR is much lower than it would be for returning to a years-old MMO. On top of that, 4e is shiny new technology, like that new hot MMO you left SWG for. So you can probably count on some more positive movement towards the new FR because of that - and this is important - because FR is going to be the only WotC campaign setting on the block for the first year or so! So if you want that fully supported 4e experience, FR is your destination.On top of that, the RPGA is going to be running FR too - so if you want to play RPGA games, you're going to be playing in the FR, and probably buying at least some of those FR books. With all those factors I think the new FR will *easily* be a success.</blockquote>

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