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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silverblade56" data-source="post: 6180948" data-attributes="member: 6750003"><p>I do hope that WotC has learned their lesson with 4E, and that Next will be thoroughly playtest, well balanced, feel like D&D, and most of all be fun.  In some ways more playtestijng of 4E could have been beneficial.  The most glaring issue at release was the insane length of combats due to going overboard with monster hitpoints.  That may have been avoided with more playtesting, but We also have confirmation from Mike Mearls that most of the playtest feedback was ignored, so maybe not.  The rest of 4E's issues like being way too different from earlier editions of D&D and greatly reduced customization and absense of "core" classes and races in the beginning would not have been affected much by more playtesting.  Of course their horrible PR for 4E's rollout (which was basicaly 100 reasons why 3.5 sucked, and if you liked it you are having badwrongfun) plus moving Dungeon and Dragon online really added fuel to the fire for 4E haters.  I really don't sthink it would be that good for them to wait until GenCon of 2015 to release Next.  Many people are leaving D&D in droves for Pathfinder and retroclones because no new product is coming out, and that is only going to get worse the longer they go without a supported edition of D&D.  Out of sight , out of mind.  Their rereleases of 3.5 and 2E/1E books are prohibitively expensive to cause a ressurgence in those editions, so if they wait too long, they will face an even greater uphill battle to recapture market share than they do now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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