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<blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 6229306" data-attributes="member: 78357">It's not opinion, it's fact. These message boards are demonstrably a tiny portion of the audience. As long as they get their books, play their game, the majority of gamers don't care. We (the message board community) aren't a statistically significant portion of the audience. We're not &quot;the middle ground&quot;. &nbsp;It's pure spin, not &quot;knowledgeable testimony&quot;. Ed sold teh Realms, guys asked him questions, he took jobs to make money off the property still as a writer because he could and they asked. That's cool. Trying to say he was some sort of benevolent altruist is completely disengenuous. He sold his setting, was still able to make some more money contributing to it and that's all well and good, but that's what it was/is. This is your bias, not fact. 4E sold, it also caused a rift. They're trying to bridge that rift, just like what they say they're doing with 5E. It's not a surprise, they've billed this all along as the &quot;unification edition&quot;. Saying 4E failed is false, unless AD&amp;D, 2E, 3E, OD&amp;D and 3.5 also &quot;failed&quot; and by nature every edition following will also &quot;fail&quot;. &nbsp;Again, your supposition is unsupported. Where are your sales/numbers figures that it &quot;failed&quot;? Going by some internet threads does not a figure make.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herschel, post: 6229306, member: 78357"] It's not opinion, it's fact. These message boards are demonstrably a tiny portion of the audience. As long as they get their books, play their game, the majority of gamers don't care. We (the message board community) aren't a statistically significant portion of the audience. We're not "the middle ground". It's pure spin, not "knowledgeable testimony". Ed sold teh Realms, guys asked him questions, he took jobs to make money off the property still as a writer because he could and they asked. That's cool. Trying to say he was some sort of benevolent altruist is completely disengenuous. He sold his setting, was still able to make some more money contributing to it and that's all well and good, but that's what it was/is. This is your bias, not fact. 4E sold, it also caused a rift. They're trying to bridge that rift, just like what they say they're doing with 5E. It's not a surprise, they've billed this all along as the "unification edition". Saying 4E failed is false, unless AD&D, 2E, 3E, OD&D and 3.5 also "failed" and by nature every edition following will also "fail". Again, your supposition is unsupported. Where are your sales/numbers figures that it "failed"? Going by some internet threads does not a figure make. [/QUOTE]

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