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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swedish Chef" data-source="post: 5299606" data-attributes="member: 27141">I'm not a 4e player, so WotC isn't going to make any money off of me, but this plan seems to be the way to keep the game alive and healthy. My heyday was late 80s, early 90s. I was in my teens and had some disposable income for the game. But I was still picky about what I bought for 2ed. I had the player's and DM's books, and bought only the Monstrous Manual when it was finally released in hard cover, and I owned the Complete Ninja's and Complete Thief's Handbooks. The rest of my group had smatterings of the other Handbooks.Boxed sets? I think we had the 1e Forgotten Realms. I wound up purchasing the Al-Qadim stuff, but no one in the group ever wanted to play, so it still gathers dust on my shelves to this day. The boxed sets were just too darned expensive for us. Mind you, the exchange rate in Canada was horrendous. A $30 boxed set in the US would come in at $50C. Some went as high as $70 on initial release. I had some disposable income, but not that much!Having said all that, though, we all wanted to buy many of the products that were advertised. What we found was that after perusing them in the stores, they weren't worth our meager funds. So they got passed by.I agree with many posters here: there were some gems in the pile of crap they shoveled out. Sadly, not enough to save TSR as a company. I am happy with what WotC has done with 3.x and to a lesser degree with 4e. Our group bought the 3.x stuff, and we've decided we're happy with what we have and are not going to go with 4e. I suspect that has more to do with the fact that we're all in our late 30s or early 40s now and can't be bothered to hand out cash for the latest and greatest than it does with quality or quantity. But I do feel that if WotC (and Paizo, Mongoose, etc) can continue to innovate and produce quality products that enough fans are requesting, then the game should survive well into an 8th or 9th edition 20 or 30 years from now.</blockquote>

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