Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
Let's make 2 hypothetical assumptions:
1) 5E sells 10X over 4E in the first month
2) 5E sales/popularity follow the same pattern as 4E over the next 36 months.
(For the record, I don't believe or expect either of these)
Those two assumptions lead to: 5E Failure
I'm not predicting failure. I expect huge success (though I'm not promising that yet either )
But the point is, 5E is doing some form of "really good". We don't know specifically.
And it doesn't mean anything about the long term.
I keep getting this reply, and I find it odd.
Every time I post in this thread, or similar threads, I explain in the post that I am not talking about the long term and I agree the long term remains in question.
And every time, I get a reply that says yes but we don't know about the long term.
What else can I do here, to not get that reply? Do I have to put the disclaimer it bold, red, huge letters? What's it going to take for my position to be any more clear - it's doing well right now, better than 4e did at this stage and probably better than 3.0e and 3.5e at this stage, but we don't know about the long term of course because we're not at the long term.
I get it, you get it, we all get it. We're talking about right now, in the short term, it's doing well. We're not talking about the long term, because none of us can predict the future and nobody is trying to either from what I can tell.