Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out."

[Maxperson]

I am not the only person who sees the WotC editions as different games. I guarantee it.

500 people attended the first flat earth conference. Having others believe what you believe doesn't make it the belief correct.

 

[Lanefan]

There's not enough money to make it worthwhile, and they might even lose money supporting prior editions.

Cart before horse before cart...

If they supported and promoted those editions as well as the current one, it's ironclad guaranteed more people would play those editions.

There's a huge somewhat-casual cohort that came in during 5e's run that likely know little to nothing about prior editions other than they had to have existed in order to get the number up to 5. And they'd likely regain a bunch of customers left behind by prior edition changes over the years.

Far better to open those editions up to the 3rd party space.

Most 3rd-party publishers don't have the resources and-or money required to get physical products into stores, which is the only type of retail that matters. WotC does.

 

[Micah Sweet]

And there we are. All the game engines of them seemed vastly more similar than different to me.

Fair enough. Obviously I see it differently.

 

[Micah Sweet]

500 people attended the first flat earth conference. Having others believe what you believe doesn't make it the belief correct.

True, no matter how many others there are.

And comparing me to a flat-earther is just insulting.

 

[Maxperson]

True, no matter how many others there are.

And comparing me to a flat-earther is just insulting.

I'm just saying that not all opinions are correct. In this case WotC gets to be the one to decide if it's the same game or not, and they've decided that all the editions are D&D. That makes them factually correct and your opinion can't change facts.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I'm just saying that not all opinions are correct. In this case WotC gets to be the one to decide if it's the same game or not, and they've decided that all the editions are D&D. That makes them factually correct and your opinion can't change facts.

I never said my opinion changed WotC's ability to decide what gets called D&D. I just disagree with them.

 

[Fenris-77]

Ok. I don't know everything, obviously. What do you mean?

GW published their own RPGs for years with incompatible editions.

 

[Maxperson]

I never said my opinion changed WotC's ability to decide what gets called D&D. I just disagree with them.

Not what is called D&D. What IS D&D.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I never said my opinion changed WotC's ability to decide what gets called D&D. I just disagree with them.

Frankly, your stance on edition naming is bonkers and unmoored from reality. There are countless things where different editions of a thing with the same name are incompatible. Yeah, you can have that opinion, but please stop derailing threads with it. People are not gonna agree with you.

 

[soviet]

The vast majority of D&D sales are driven by successful marketing of various stripes. The idea that 5e's success at bringing in new people was due to a favourable analysis of the revised game rules is laughable.