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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5961057" data-attributes="member: 58416">Currently, there are 5 main reasons why I'm losing interest.1) I came away from the playtest feeling as though I am not part of the target audience for the style of game WoTC is producing.  2) WoTC as a company and the designers of 5E have already stated that many of the modules that (I feel) would suit my style the best won't even be looked at until much further down the line after 5E is released.  As such, I have quite a while until 5E is released, and then even more time until I am able to the play the style of game I want to play with the system.  3) I do not feel as though my feedback is going to matter.  I fully accept that some of my preferences place me in the minority.  However, even if that were not the case, I -at this point in time- believe that some of my feedback has probably been dismissed as not being what the powers-that-be want to hear and/or as not being valid.  I say this because I see nothing in the responses to the playtesting process so far which seems to suggest otherwise.  Again, I understand that I am probably in the minority.  I do not hold that against WoTC; however, my wallet does.4) Other companies are producing excellent material during the lull in D&D progress.  I already felt that much of the material provided by other products I buy was excellent and only getting better; now they those products really have no competition as far as WoTC products I want to purchase, I'm only being further distanced from D&D as a product line.  5) I do not feel WoTC means the same thing with a lot of their language that I thought they meant.  For example, when 'modularity'* was tossed around as a buzzword, I thought that was great.  However, I've come to realize that the word is being used far differently than how I originally thought they meant it.  Overall, I feel as though I'm speaking a completely different gaming language than WoTC, and -as such- I do not feel they (as a company) understand what I want out of a rpg experience.  I also do not feel they (as a company) understand why I did (or did not) like certain aspects of previous editions.  I suppose this ties in with 2 & 3 somewhat, but the basic idea is that I feel that the game being created is not being created with someone like me in mind.  I in no way expect my desires to be the driving force behind 5E; I'm simply saying that I currently feel as though other companies are doing more -in my opinion- to earn my loyalty as a customer.  *This is especially noticeable because one of the other rpgs I play is a modular system, and there's a world of difference between how I am perceiving that product versus how I currently perceive the D&D 5E model.</blockquote>

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