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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7667229" data-attributes="member: 42582">I suspect they are going on more than guesswork. They have sales figures for their 4e adventures, I would assume one of the biggest marketing teams in the RPG business, etc.The best evidence we have of 4e's financial success was that it made a 2 year playtest of 5e possible. To me that suggests that it was relatively profitable, and that the DDI income stream in particular was not negligible.New stuff will come out. It already has come out, and for free! Look at the PotA supplement.In my view, though, what really makes a game feel 'abandoned' is when a would-be new player can't find a group. There is no evidence that people are having trouble finding 5e groups, or will for the foreseeable future have any such trouble.As for silence: someone else upthread (maybe [MENTION=6701829]Trickster Spirit[/MENTION]) indicated that WotC has an announcement window of about 6 months. So on something like (say) psionics, will there eventually be something - probably yes - but will it be in the next 6 months - probably not.About a year ago, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?1590-What-is-Happening-to-Tabletop-Roleplaying-Games#.VScMP9yUeSo" target="_blank">Mearls stated that WotC wasn't intending to focus its efforts for D%D on the RPG publishing market</a>. He even talks about settings, and notes that the main value of the settings is not in publishing RPG books for them.That's not 2012, but it's unlikely that Mearls just made all that up off the top of his head at a gaming convention. They've been planning this approach for some time, and have given plenty of notice of it!</blockquote>

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