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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5807185" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>Hmmm.</p><p></p><p>WotC appears to be wanting to maintain the 4E online tools for some time to come. There are 44 classes, 43 races, and many thousands of powers, feats, and items in the game system at the moment. A person could play a different PC concept a year and it would still take thousands of years to run out of new PC concepts.</p><p></p><p>Is the problem that Dragon and Dungeon won't probably support 4E anymore?</p><p></p><p></p><p>I look at it this way. WotC is a company that has to make money. They aren't going to do that sitting on their laurels and by putting out similar material over and over again like they have. There gets to be a point in time that there is just too much material and people stop buying new stuff.</p><p></p><p>In order to survive, WotC has to adapt and they have to put out new material that people will buy. I don't like the fact that a new edition is coming out so quickly after the last one, but I do understand that the business has to move forward. Personally, I think WotC ran out of ideas on how to do that while staying within the current edition.</p><p></p><p>I don't think WotC wants to piss off any of their customers, but they are between a rock and a hard place and that's how I view it. I don't take it personally. I take it for what it is: WotC adapting and trying to survive in the market. And I figure that with all of the 4E material out there, I can play 4E for the rest of my life without buying a single other WotC product ever. It's not like someone is holding a gun to our heads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5807185, member: 2011"] Hmmm. WotC appears to be wanting to maintain the 4E online tools for some time to come. There are 44 classes, 43 races, and many thousands of powers, feats, and items in the game system at the moment. A person could play a different PC concept a year and it would still take thousands of years to run out of new PC concepts. Is the problem that Dragon and Dungeon won't probably support 4E anymore? I look at it this way. WotC is a company that has to make money. They aren't going to do that sitting on their laurels and by putting out similar material over and over again like they have. There gets to be a point in time that there is just too much material and people stop buying new stuff. In order to survive, WotC has to adapt and they have to put out new material that people will buy. I don't like the fact that a new edition is coming out so quickly after the last one, but I do understand that the business has to move forward. Personally, I think WotC ran out of ideas on how to do that while staying within the current edition. I don't think WotC wants to piss off any of their customers, but they are between a rock and a hard place and that's how I view it. I don't take it personally. I take it for what it is: WotC adapting and trying to survive in the market. And I figure that with all of the 4E material out there, I can play 4E for the rest of my life without buying a single other WotC product ever. It's not like someone is holding a gun to our heads. [/QUOTE]
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