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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 6058703" data-attributes="member: 360">... which has always been sort of a problem for WotC. They manage to put out most of the player crunch that will really sell well in about three years ... but most players will not accept a new edition that often, or even the once every five years they've mostly done with D&amp;D. And the OGL and d20 SRD made it legal for anyone to produce near-clones of 3.5, and Paizo did it with good production values and adventure support, and suddenly prior-edition fans had their game still supported pretty well (which I didn't expect at the time, possibly due to wishful thinking since I mostly like 4e, but in retrospect was obvious).The box WotC was in with 4e is even worse with D&amp;D Next because- Paizo is still supporting Pathfinder, so youneed a very compelling argument for them to switch- Many people who liked 4e have been... unimpressed, at best, with D&amp;DNext so far, and are upset with WotC for not supporting the only game they currently have right now (I'd wave here)- Nothing will legally stop anyone from creating a 4e equivalent of Pathfinder (IMO, and IANAL, nothing recognizable as D&amp;D could not be reverse-engineered from the d20 SRD, and the OSIRIC effort pretty much proved this)- It's become far easier to find out about non-D&amp;D games over the last decade or so as the internet has become pervasive</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 6058703, member: 360"] ... which has always been sort of a problem for WotC. They manage to put out most of the player crunch that will really sell well in about three years ... but most players will not accept a new edition that often, or even the once every five years they've mostly done with D&D. And the OGL and d20 SRD made it legal for anyone to produce near-clones of 3.5, and Paizo did it with good production values and adventure support, and suddenly prior-edition fans had their game still supported pretty well (which I didn't expect at the time, possibly due to wishful thinking since I mostly like 4e, but in retrospect was obvious). The box WotC was in with 4e is even worse with D&D Next because - Paizo is still supporting Pathfinder, so youneed a very compelling argument for them to switch - Many people who liked 4e have been... unimpressed, at best, with D&DNext so far, and are upset with WotC for not supporting the only game they currently have right now (I'd wave here) - Nothing will legally stop anyone from creating a 4e equivalent of Pathfinder (IMO, and IANAL, nothing recognizable as D&D could not be reverse-engineered from the d20 SRD, and the OSIRIC effort pretty much proved this) - It's become far easier to find out about non-D&D games over the last decade or so as the internet has become pervasive [/QUOTE]

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