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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4706471" data-attributes="member: 13966">Option 2 does seem the most likely for what they would do, though as was mentioned, DDi will be earning them some decent cashflow as long as 4e is still supported.The options I think they'd be better off with, though, before developing and releasing 5e, would be to grab up some short-term gains at minor cost while trying to recapture what market share they've lost, and maybe continuing to draw in some of the younger crowd they've desperately wanted to snare with 4e.By reviving the d20 STL and making another print run of the 3e core rulebooks, announcing a new and improved D&D 3rd edition, and putting out a new version of the core rules later that year with some things streamlined and just minor fixes, patcing the main gripes about 3e like high-level play, which Pathfinder doesn't look like it'll do much about.  And including a few pieces of OGC from other sources (maybe even a bit of 3e WotC material that wasn't OGC before), trying to draw in more of the OGC crowd.  Recapture the customers that left before, while maintaining support for 4e (since this 3e remake would require relatively little effort) until a better time for releasing 5e.Or they might release a new Basic D&D of some kind, D&D Classic as was posited (though less likely a name for a republished 2e or 3e).  Refine the rules somewhat and release a new, simple, streamlined D&D system that they can expand upon with supplements while trying to both recapture grognards and keeping those who liked whatever streamlining 4e did.  Done well enough, it might draw in some folks who'd otherwise be playing WoW.  Of course, you have to emphasize what D&D does better than WoW....The likely cheapness of either may be enough to make D&D more profitable, even in the current economic situation.</blockquote>

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