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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9732363" data-attributes="member: 7026594">The groups I've played with historically have been for the most part serious enthusiasts.  To the extent that we commonly ran multi-year campaigns of D&D as our baseline.  IME it's been rare for us to switch editions mid-campaign.  I suspect that 60% is comprised both of people who don't want to switch at all PLUS a significant share of hardcore DMs who haven't yet switched over in their home games, so they ran the edition they're already familiar with.Bear in mind also that event submission for GenCon 2025 started in January (early event submission ran Jan 5 to Feb 2) and ended March 9th.   I think they had to commit on what edition they were running when they submitted their events.  The new Monster Manual didn't even get released until Feb 18.Organized play serves that marketing function under the aegis of the publisher, but the large majority of games are run by volunteer DMs outside of organized play.  They're generally not trying to sell anything unless they're running their self-published heartbreaker (or maybe the adventure they're running, especially if they wrote & published that). They're trying to run a fun game which they enjoy using a system they know well and feel confident running for strangers in a limited time slot.</blockquote>