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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 3709447" data-attributes="member: 18182">A lot of people are saying this, and maybe I missed something, but I don't remember any Wizards folks categorically stating, "we are not working on 4e."I do remember a lot of vague misdirection on the subject, but what do you expect?  They had to pick a date to announce the new edition, and before that date they couldn't reveal the mystic secrets.  It's what I expected them to do.I think you are misremembering and/or misunderstanding the early pre-3e research Wizards did that Ryan Dancey talked about publicly.  It was pretty clear that "splat" books, like the "Complete" line in 2e, were BIG sellers and quite successful.  Multiple settings supported at once and tons of monthly output did create a situation where D&D was competing against itself.They have stated already that the Realms and Eberron will get the 4e treatment, and it also seems clear they plan on releasing at least one "setting" book a year with revisions for ALL the classic D&D settings in the works.  Doesn't mean that each setting will receive simultaneous support with an increased monthly output like we saw in the late TSR days.Um, they actuall DID tell us that Dragon and Dungeon were moving to online formats pretty much right away.  They just didn't give us the details until this weekend.Why is marketing the D&D Insider hand-in-hand with D&D 4e a bad thing?  If you don't care for the online component, you can ignore it regardless of when it is released.  Their stated reason for 4e being released now is that their work on D&D Insider prompted the decision to role out 4e at the same time.  They actually had very similar plans for the release of 3e (remember the "Character Generator" CD included with the 3.0 PHB?), but all sorts of crazy disaster struck and it never materialized.</blockquote>

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