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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Siberys" data-source="post: 6361401" data-attributes="member: 30619">Hate to break it to you Imaro, but that doesn't really have anything to do with what Tony, Pemerton, or I have been saying throughout this thread. That was a post made the day 5e was announced about community trust issues with Wizards, not a reveal of the motives behind the choice to move to a new edition. Scott Rouse had been off the team for a while by then. He imparted no insider information we didn't already cover, except that when he was on the team they expected an 8-10 year run. Hardly astonishing.To reiterate; I believe that the information we /do/ have about 4e's cancellation has nothing to do with its popularity. Claiming otherwise is essentially just speculation, and presenting it otherwise is at the very least misleading. That info we do have paints a picture that would be horribly bleak for 4e even without all of the community issues surrounding it, and it's entirely possible those community issues didn't even factor into the decision to drop it at all. [MENTION=16979]13garth13[/MENTION] - Suffice to say I don't buy the "D&Desque"/alienation argument as a reason for why 4e was dropped. Why someone may dislike 4e? Sure, that's reasonable. But if community splintering were really a big reason behind the jump to another edition, adding another "faction," so to speak, seems like it'd be a major gamble. They'd have to make up for lost 4e players, bring back a bunch of fans of other games like PF, and get a sizable number of new and lapsed players.If we're comparing gut feelings, it seems much more likely to me that 5e is just meant to ride out the time while D&D doesn't have a big corporate monkey riding its back. Having a system that "doesn't rock the boat," to call back to an earlier point in the discussion, seems like it may be in support of that. But like I said, gut feeling.</blockquote>

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