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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2850920" data-attributes="member: 32740">Some people always will want newer, better, faster, or just different.  They are the people that you hear from most regarding 4E.  Those who are happy with 3.0/3.5 (or at least do not yet desire to see 4E even if they are UNhappy with 3E) do not put up post after post TALKING about 4E.Recreate the 3E hype?  Hype?  You may or may not recall that when WotC first acquired D&D from TSR it was dead.  That is, TSR was dead and thus by default D&D was dead.  Even just acquiring it would also not be sufficient to revive it as it was severly damaged by many years of company mismanagment.  One of the ways in which WotC determined to truly revive the game is to publish a NEW version.I would thus not call anything regarding the initial publishing of 3E "hype", which implies excessive and unecessary publicity and promotion.I also am continually amazed at the truly extraordinary deviousness; the secretive, conspiratorial machinations that are attributed - even in speculation - to WotC.  In fact it always IS speculation as I have yet to see any such that has basis in fact or genuinely reasonable implications.  WotC would never simply publish a new, streamlined, revamped, corrected version of D&D because they think there is a market for it or that it's needed.  No... they must first attack their customers, cleverly debasing and altering their very foundation of enjoyment of the game, manipulating them and the game rules with astounding and Byzantine plots that will first MANUFACTURE the market that does not even exist and which they INFLICT upon their customers.Puhleeze.</blockquote>

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