Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gryph" data-source="post: 5655169" data-attributes="member: 98071">And yet, in my case, it was absolutely the right play to make for them.  I had stopped playing 3e for a number of reasons, mostly related to what I consider broken and not fun levels of crunchiness. When I read some of the developer comments about 4e, particularly when they pointed out problems they saw in 3e, it motivated me to give it a try. I might have eventually anyway, but I am reasonably sure that I would not have bought the 3 core books and H1 as soon as they were available. Nor would I have sought out my local Meetup group and made sure I had a group right away. My point is, I recognize that you, as a fan of the then current edition, did not like the approach they took in discussing the coming edition. That has very little to do with what they "should" have done. What they "should" have done is talk about it in the manner that they felt would attract the most interest and ultimately generate the most sales. At the time, I believe that is exactly what they were trying to do. In hindsight, they may have guessed wrong, we will honestly never be able to determine if a different approach would have garnered more sales or not. I am, personally, sceptical that releasing a significantly different version of the game while being complimentary to the current version would have resulted in stronger sales and player adoption.</blockquote>