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Message: <blockquote data-quote="samursus" data-source="post: 5452590" data-attributes="member: 64280">While you make an interesting case (OP), I respectfully disagree.  1) Wizards has flat out said (and Amazon rankings agree) that each PHB sold less than the previous.  Partially because some of the retailers had problems determining which books they needed to stock.  eg: is PHB3 the newest version and therefore 1&2 are obsolete?  2) While the reasons for the dropping of the Ki and Elemental sources are debatable, it does have a logic that I can see.  I, for one, have 0 interest in an PHB4 that is really 4e Oriental Adventures... which leads to:3) The class ideas were getting very niche-tastic.  Many have already complained that 4e is suffering from option bloat/paralysis.  One can forget that those of us who post on these boards are the vocal minority.  And even among said demographic, we rarely agree on what the game needs.I don't doubt that from your perspective WotC messed up majorly, (I see a lot of these threads) but they are in the business of keeping the business alive.  We armchair CEO's seem to have flawless insight and vision when it comes to what we want, but Wizards has to deal with reality:  try to sell products to as many of a diverse customer base as possible.  And admit it, I don't know of a more diverse and opinionated lot that we RPG'ers.Thats why, even if I don't agree with their decisions, I don't waste time second-guessing or ranting about what they should of done.  I have come to humbly admit, I have no idea what it takes to maintain a company the size of WotC.  /rant/ I love it when people hope for the death of WotC and wish for a smaller company to take over D&D and "treat it like it should be treated".  What they really mean is: "I hope someone else makes D&D the way I think it should be and of course everyone else would love it too." /rant  (BTW I am not suggesting the OP feels this way)</blockquote>

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