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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1948950" data-attributes="member: 2855">Dragonblade - Yes, that might be possibly the worst business decision, from the point of fans, but it might not be so from a business perspective. We already know that 3.5 was planned for THIS year, but was released 2 years early for some reason.Was that a bad decision for WotC? According to Charles Ryan, it was not, as 2004 was apparently a great year for them. The fans complained a bit, but then went ahead and for the most part switched over. The upper management likely thinks the same result will happen when 4.0 is released, and chances are, they will.Something that needs to be taken into account is that WotC may not be the one making such a decision. Remember, WotC is owned by Hasbro, a company well reknowned for some of its decisions (and its lawsuits - such as suing a guy for making a parody of a single card from monopoly). Now, Mearls also said that he thinks that 4.0 will be out in a year or two because of how many freelancers WotC is hiring. In other threads,  I have said that I expect 4.0 in 2006, although my reasons for this conclusion are different, being based on past events and the wording of some things that some people have said (including Charles Ryan repeatedly dodging and side-stepping the question in an interview early last year). I have also heard similar conclusions from a number of other publishers, some of whom do have contacts within WotC. However, until WotC makes some sort of announcement about it, it is all conjecture. Gamers are not the ones who have to worry about, the publishers are. It would be sheer folly for publishers to ignore the possibility, especially when they are seeing various signs, and hearing rumors from people within WotC in some cases, to the effect that it is coming, and no too far away.And of course, there have been rumors of 4.0 since 3.0 was released and there will continue to be such rumors until 4.0 is actually announced/released, and then the rumors will be about 4.5 or 5.0 and its projected release....  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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