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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9684885" data-attributes="member: 7808">I immediately thought of Star Wars Saga Edition.  A pretty big release in 2007, but ended abruptly in 2010 and lost a lot of players very quickly.I am guessing licensed games probably aren't the kind of examples you intended, but are probably the biggest real cases of this.  When a property gets big, it gets an RPG; when it gets stale, any interest in the RPG dies.  I don't have numbers, but I'm guessing the Battlestar Galactica RPG, the Firefly RPG, and the My Little Pony RPG all had a decent following upon their release but suffered fast losses as the franchises fell out of view to the general public.More to the meat of your earlier point, though, is that I'm suspicious most of these "fair weather fans" who pick up and drop RPGs quickly or who actively hate on other RPGs aren't as fickle as their outward appearance would suggest.  The issue isn't that they're not loyal to new RPGs.  The issue is that they're overly loyal to one specific RPG (often, but not always, their first), and never really wanted to move away from it in the first place.  This is, of course, complete speculation.  But the only people I've ever seen hate on 5e and want D&D/WotC/something to fail always have another RPG that they want to herald instead of it.</blockquote>