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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3779204" data-attributes="member: 18">Clearly not. It's typical knee-jerk "omg change!" reaction, as Ed Greenwood himself rather more politely suggested. More to the point, I suspect most "OMG I QUIT THE REALMS 4EVAR!!!!911!" posters on both these and other boards will pick up the new FRCS, and give it a chance, despite currently hyperbole.It seems to me that WotC are a cautious company, by nature. They are careful to avoid flops, non-selling products and so on. They're not perfect, but they're pretty good at it. For them to even consider rebooting the Forgotten Realms, there needs to be a pretty good reason. I think we can guess at it pretty easily:The current FR products are not selling as well as they could be.I know there's a "current FR" fanbase that likes to go on about how "loyal" they are, and how terribly cheated they feel by significant changes to the Realms, but I strongly suspect (and this is merely opinion, of course), that there are either not actually that many of them, or that they're not actually buying all the FR products. I think that WotC is looking at the early 3E FR sales figures (which included people like me), and/or the late 2E FR sales figures on TSR's books, and wondering where, exactly, all these people have gone. I know several "ex-FR" GMs at the moment, who quit FR at some point in 3E, most of them early on. Exact reasons vary, but whilst the 3E FR has arguably "improved" (especially lately), it's going to take major change to get these people, and the long-lost 1E/early 2E FR players, back into the fold.3E FR was merely a continuation of 2E FR, love or loathe it. Clearly, for this sort of change to happen, a lot of people had to have loathed it, or for WotC, a company who do not act without market research, to believe that. So now we get 4E and big FR changes - One thing I know for sure is, just as Kae'Yoss will be point-blank refusing to buy the setting no matter how good it is, simply because it "his favourite" anymore, I know I, and at least a couple of others I know IRL will almost certainly be buying the new FRCS, and seeing how it goes from there.Kae'Yoss - Whether you feel your bailing is "justified" or not is rendered meaningless by your assertion that you will not buy it even if it is a very good setting. Would you even be running it if they continued to release the FR, considering how wildly superior you consider Paizo's products (perhaps with good reason)? Do you run it and buy the books for it now, or just casually buy them out of vague interest?</blockquote>

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