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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 3787333" data-attributes="member: 1">That one's too easy.&nbsp; Branding.&nbsp; Look &amp; style.&nbsp; Differentiating 4th from 3rd.&nbsp; Making it feel fresh and new.&nbsp; Branding is a very strong reason to do such a thing.&nbsp; It may not matter to you or me as a gamer, but it's a massively important factor in the survival of a product line.What is highly amusing is that, by some peoples' definitions, there's no reason to get new artwork at all (well, there's no reason to make a new game: WotC, having published all the 3.5 books it can realisticallyprofit from, shoud do the right thing and roll over and die...) - just re-use the old art.&nbsp; Of course, we then cue the &quot;WotC are ripping me off by selling me the same art twice!&quot; waling and gnashing of teeth.To a large extent, it doesn't matter what they do.&nbsp; People will be criticizing them for it, whatever.&nbsp; Change a lot of stuff and they're changing things for change's sake; change little, and they're ripping you off with a 3.75; don't release anything at all, and &quot;3.5 is so full of crappy more-and-more specialized splatbooks - WotC haven't a clue what they're doing&quot;.&nbsp; There is no course of action which won't result in threads like this, or similar.What they can - and should - do is do what they think will sell.&nbsp; And that's what they're doing, and it's all they can do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 3787333, member: 1"] That one's too easy. Branding. Look & style. Differentiating 4th from 3rd. Making it feel fresh and new. Branding is a very strong reason to do such a thing. It may not matter to you or me as a gamer, but it's a massively important factor in the survival of a product line. What is highly amusing is that, by some peoples' definitions, there's no reason to get new artwork at all (well, there's no reason to make a new game: WotC, having published all the 3.5 books it can realisticallyprofit from, shoud do the right thing and roll over and die...) - just re-use the old art. Of course, we then cue the "WotC are ripping me off by selling me the same art twice!" waling and gnashing of teeth. To a large extent, it doesn't matter what they do. People will be criticizing them for it, whatever. Change a lot of stuff and they're changing things for change's sake; change little, and they're ripping you off with a 3.75; don't release anything at all, and "3.5 is so full of crappy more-and-more specialized splatbooks - WotC haven't a clue what they're doing". There is no course of action which won't result in threads like this, or similar. What they can - and should - do is do what they think will sell. And that's what they're doing, and it's all they can do. [/QUOTE]

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