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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5269111" data-attributes="member: 7006">Yup... except that I think the concept of "edition" will just become a term of the past.  After all, when WoW releases patches, are they new "edition" of the game?  Nope, just an evolution of the rules.  Even their expansion sets aren't "editions".  But if you look at the spells/talents/core concepts of their game now compared to what it was when it was first released?  You'd think it was a completely new game.  But no one cares, because it all occurs in and around their monthly subscription to play the game anyway.  (It's also why Blizzard made the brilliant decision to update everything in Cataclysm while still keeping it the base game, rather than make the mistake of creating World of Warcraft II.  Because that just splinters the fanbase and both end up suffering (like I think is what happened with EverQuest I & II)Perhaps.  But I think this is also where they could continue to produce fluff books in hardcover like the Dragonomicons, or Open Grave, or Manual of the Planes or the campaign settings, where the fluff doesn't have to be worried about being 'updated' per se, as the rules are.  So if needing other books on the shelves was important, they could certainly do that.Although quite honestly... I really don't think they need to.  I think we're progressing so quickly through electronic reader / pad computer formats that most (if not all) of the game information itself can and will be digital, even if the personal interaction of the gameplay is around a table.  So as long as they have something on the shelve that a parent can buy and give to someone for a birthday, and which tells the kid that if they like the game, go online to <a href="http://www.wizards.com" target="_blank">www.wizards.com</a> to join DDI for the full experience... that's all they'll need in the next few years.</blockquote>

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