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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4429154" data-attributes="member: 50987">On principle, I do not play any game that charges me a monthly fee, and I never will.  For my online gaming needs, I prefer Diablo II and Battlenet (and I am seriously excited about the upcoming Diablo III, assuming they don't decide to charge a monthly fee for Battle.Net.)  So the argument about whether or not D&D will ever succeed as an MMORPG is sort of beside the point for me.What I find interesting (odd?  worrysome?) about this news announcement is the "gradual" transition from 3.5 Edition to 4th Edition.  I know that we don't have all of the details, but I'm thinking this would end up causing more problems than it would solve.The MMORPG players that I know are very obsessive about their characters...any amount of tampering with their Precious will enrage them.  Heaven forbid they log in and discover their prized barbarians or druids have been "upgraded" to fighters and warlocks.  Or worse: deleted, locked, reset...My guess will be that the differences between the 3.5E and 4E games will be handled much like the Battlenet games do when the ladders get reset: you log in to discover that your six-month old character can no longer play in games with newer rules.  Not good either.I don't see this being good or easy.  I think it would be best to just wait until the 4E system was fully-developed, and then release it as a whole.</blockquote>