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Message: <blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4541582" data-attributes="member: 70778">The problem is that planned obsolescence has been realized to be flawed as people are smarter than they were in the 50' and don't want to waste money on something that won't last. Now everything is made to last longer without having to buy spare parts for it.IE: those missing form it initially.So while WotC wants to lengthen the lifespan of 4th by making more things to buy, it also losses interest as by the time something finally comes out that someone may want, the risk is that they will have moved on to other things and left 4th edition behind.If you want to make add-ons, they always come after the core, not before.Look at the campaign books. How do you explain that new core classes or races exist and no update to a setting book for a few years?Forgotten Realms at the forefront of the RPGA now will take a big hit if people have no ability to play a new class or race that start later on after PHBII. Unless Eberron will replace LFR with Living Eberron after PHBII that will include any new races/classes brought out after that.Make the core first, then bring on the add-ons/supplements. Sure this won't guarantee the company to make more money, but neither will the way they thought up to make PHBII, DMGII, etc.The product lifecycle is up to WotC to make things people will want to buy, not tell them when they can buy what they consider a complete game.When people get tired of buying, then the lifecycle is over, so making the best material rather than holding things back is the best thing to do.Sure those classes are coming, but should someone have to spend $40 on a book for a single class?Supplemental material disguised as core, only turns people off about something.Are they always going to keep all core material in print? In 2011 will they be selling a "core set" that includes PHBI-IV, DMG I-IV, MMI-IV?$480 to play D&D? How much does the PS4/X-Box 720 cost?Or are the new PHBs going to replace the older ones buy just adding errata and pages for the new classes/races to them.This has been discussed to death, so I will leave it as is. The "everything is core" is a design flaw from marketing, R&D, etc.Sales in the splat PHBs/etc will be lower and lower with each year.</blockquote>

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