To those of you who feel WotC "lied" about 4Ed, I must say what my Civil Procedures 1 professor loved to say..."So what?"
WotC is a for-profit business, and from a business perspective, the eventual release of 4Ed was a fact of life once 3.XEd came into its own as a successful product, especially since it wasn't/isn't/will never be perfect.
Of course they said otherwise- you can't tell people you're working on Product B which will replace Product A if you still want them to buy Product A. If they stop buying Product A, your business gets crippled from lack of income, and Product B either gets rushed to market or never gets released.
Rest assured, if 4Ed is a success, 5Ed is coming.
WotC is a for-profit business, and from a business perspective, the eventual release of 4Ed was a fact of life once 3.XEd came into its own as a successful product, especially since it wasn't/isn't/will never be perfect.
Of course they said otherwise- you can't tell people you're working on Product B which will replace Product A if you still want them to buy Product A. If they stop buying Product A, your business gets crippled from lack of income, and Product B either gets rushed to market or never gets released.
Rest assured, if 4Ed is a success, 5Ed is coming.