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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tylermalan" data-source="post: 3029913" data-attributes="member: 30929">Ok so, I've been in Iraq for a few months, and thereby not playing D&D (or really anything for that matter) recently, and I haven't been keeping up with the news.  I just read all of the 4E news though, and started thinking about the state of the industry.So, as per the title of this thread, at which point does knowledge of where the industry is going actually change the industry?It seems to me that though the public doesn't know anything about 4E for sure, they PROBABLY do.  There are so many insiders in the gaming community, so many ex-employees of WOTC, so much insight into the EXACT way this entire industry works that the only things kept secret anymore are specific release dates.  I understand those dates might have a large bearing on marketing decisions and so forth, but come on - EVERYTHING else is practically known already.What I mean is this:  let's say the most popular rumor regarding 4E is actually correct.  Most people that play the game know of it, and believe it.  Then let's say that this rumor is one that discredits WOTC or Hasbro - like that they will attempt to squeeze the game for what it's worth in the next 5 years and then drop it (which discredits them by making them seem like they don't care, like they don't even like the game, like they're just another example of money-grubbing corporate America).  The fact that most people know and believe this rumor probably means that if 4E comes out as expected, NO ONE will buy into it.  Which would, it seems to me, make following the current plan a bad idea on the part of WOTC or Hasbro.As small as the hobby might be, it seems rather large to me still, and I would think WOTC would rather hire us all on as consultants than to have us all know their plans before they've hatched and quit buying their products.  No?</blockquote>

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