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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5663121" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I'm pretty much with you on all of this. WotC could fritter away resources supporting 5 different major old editions of D&D, each to some minuscule degree, or they can keep going forward. Once you commit yourself to a direction the worst thing you can do is get 3/4 of the way up the hill and then start second guessing yourself and end up back at the bottom with little to show for it. Frankly I just don't think all the hand-wringing about 4e is warranted anyway. It's a mature game system. They continue to support it. Despite all the teeth gnashing on this or that board there's no big huge upset of philosophy or direction nor some vast failure to provide ongoing support and material. I get that Mike wants to project a vision of being all-inclusive and having every fan of every niche of the D&D community all warm and fuzzy about how he values them and caters to them. That's fine, wonderful and all, but at the same time what REALLY is the practical effect of all of that? WotC has NOTHING to offer to 3.x players that they can't get from Paizo, and even if they could do something there it would make very little sense to provide additional support to someone else's game that they already 5 years ago made a decision they needed to update. 1e? 2e? There are small numbers of people playing AD&D, sure, but again the market is basically retro clones and it seems unlikely there's a vast demand for additions to the huge pile of stuff that has accumulated over the last 30 years. About all they could do there would be to put out some old PDFs, which would be nice but is hardly worth more than the most marginal time and effort. The same goes for BECMI, and actual genuine old D&D is not even worth thinking about. The game was barely comprehensible to start with and has nothing over Basic even there were some huge pent up demand.</blockquote>

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