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<blockquote data-quote="Jack99" data-source="post: 4607631" data-attributes="member: 53135">I will give you that. If we assume the 55% who voted to be a correct indication of the ENworld situation, it does seem like a lot. I expected maybe half of that, but not that much. However, I still do not think those numbers are anywhere near reality if we look at all players.I agree to a certain degree, although evidence presented on these boards seem to indicate that quite a few of those who chose not to move to 4e has done so because they feel slighted by WotC. The GSL and an apparent hostile marketing campaign being sited as examples quite often. I do however think there is one thing that's worth mentioning, which has contributed to people not switching as well. The sheer amount of material they have collected during the OGL-era. Quite a few have mentioned that as a reason to switch: &quot;I have 3.x material enough to last me a lifetime, I like 3.x, why should I switch&quot;. For those that think that 4e is clearly superior (like myself) it didn't matter how much they had, it was an easy choice to switch. For those that feel that 4e is good, but not necessarily better than 3.x, I can understand why they wouldn't want to switch. Especially coupled with the fact that the OGL ensures that it's at least possible to keep publishing material for that edition. Wouldn't that be awesome? That would seem to indicate a lot of new people starting to play D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack99, post: 4607631, member: 53135"] I will give you that. If we assume the 55% who voted to be a correct indication of the ENworld situation, it does seem like a lot. I expected maybe half of that, but not that much. However, I still do not think those numbers are anywhere near reality if we look at all players. I agree to a certain degree, although evidence presented on these boards seem to indicate that quite a few of those who chose not to move to 4e has done so because they feel slighted by WotC. The GSL and an apparent hostile marketing campaign being sited as examples quite often. I do however think there is one thing that's worth mentioning, which has contributed to people not switching as well. The sheer amount of material they have collected during the OGL-era. Quite a few have mentioned that as a reason to switch: "I have 3.x material enough to last me a lifetime, I like 3.x, why should I switch". For those that think that 4e is clearly superior (like myself) it didn't matter how much they had, it was an easy choice to switch. For those that feel that 4e is good, but not necessarily better than 3.x, I can understand why they wouldn't want to switch. Especially coupled with the fact that the OGL ensures that it's at least possible to keep publishing material for that edition. Wouldn't that be awesome? That would seem to indicate a lot of new people starting to play D&D. [/QUOTE]

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