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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6228011" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well, no it isn't unfair to call them out... but from what I got from your statement, it wasn't to chastise them for what they said about 4E, but to say what they needed to do for 5E.  You said they need to create a game that lasts 10 years so that people didn't feel like they've wasted their money buying it.  Which would be true if there was any evidence to suggest that people won't buy a new game five year earlier than that... but thus far that has not happened.  Plenty of people will buy a new game even though its only been five years since the previous one (as they did for 3.5 and 4E), and they'll buy it in much greater numbers than the other books they would have been sold otherwise supplementing the last edition.Individual people might not like "having to buy" a new set of books (which isn't even actually true, because no one's forcing them to do it)... but just because some players aren't going to do it, doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people to replace them, and thus the amount of sales of a new D&D edition's books will remain incredibly high.If/when those numbers drop off (and who knows, maybe you're right and 5E is that edition, although I personally doubt it)... maybe the D&D department won't do a new edition because they can't get a green light from WotC to do so.  But I have a hard time imagining that happening any time soon.  People like buying and playing new games.  And just because the game they buy has the same name on it as one they bought five years earlier, doesn't mean it's not going to be a new experience with a new bunch of people in new situations.  So why not?  And that's what WotC and their fiscal year-to-date is banking on.</blockquote>

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