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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7666299" data-attributes="member: 7006">Haven't any one of you noticed as you've read through this thread that PRACTICALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WANTS SOMETHING DIFFERENT?That's EXACTLY why WotC isn't going whole-hog on anything right now.  Because nobody is looking for the same darned thing!  ANYTHING they announce will get 10% of the people here exclaiming "Thank God!  They're finally listening to us!", while the other 90% will shout "This company is full of it!  Don't they know this thing is absolutely worthless?!?"One of you wants intricate details of every single piece of the Realms in every single location that has changed following The Sundering.  Another one of you wants a dozen pages of one area along with 57 adventure ideas.  Another one of you wants that same thing except wants the monster stats included so you don't have to buy or open your Monster Manual.  A person over here is happy the events of The Spellplague are not being "completely wiped away", a person over there wants a Realms that is a mirror image of the Grey Box.  This guy wants the old Volo's Guides reprinted in paper form with most of the cool information left intact, but only some slight changes to account for the most up-to-date info.  That girl wants the Volo's Guides re-done, but only in PDF form because doesn't WotC know this is an online world, and she doesn't want to have to carry her books with her wherever she goes.  Over here is the player who is glad the adventure book is generic enough that she can take what she wants out of it and transplant it in the setting of her choice.  Over there is the guy who feels it isn't generic ENOUGH, and is mad that he'll have to spend an extra hour of his time wiping away the names of places that don't fit where he's using it.  And way over there is the person who doesn't want it *generic*... if it's a Forgotten Realms book, then include really useful Forgotten Realms setting details in it!  What a shame that this guy here *also* wants that, but unfortunately what HE thinks are "useful Forgotten Realms setting details" are completely different than what the first guy though were "useful Forgotten Realms setting details".It's ridiculous.  No matter what WotC does or doesn't do, no one is ever going to be happy.  And it's for that reason that they are well within their right (and probably completely correct) in ignoring ALL OF US... and just do what they feel like doing and what they think is right.Because there's NO right answer.  None.  All they have is what they can feel proud of making at their end of the business working day.</blockquote>

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