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<blockquote data-quote="sunshadow21" data-source="post: 6302457" data-attributes="member: 6667193"><p>You are quite correct, but that requires the starter box to have 5 months of gaming in it, and that is no given at this point in time. It also requires really good adventures or other materials so that those groups are still buying something related to the system beyond that 5 months, and thereby making WotC money. One of 4E's biggest failures was losing the &quot;we sometimes play this&quot; market, and WotC cannot afford to lose that market again. The fact is that the $50 price tag is a notable challenge and concern that cannot simply be brushed aside. If addressed properly, and if the rest of the system supports it, it's a challenge easily dealt with, but it's still there, and it still needs to be addressed. If they want to target the primary game groups with the core books, they need something else to target the secondary audience, and that something else is not something they have done well with in the past; the lack of that something else with 3E was the whole reason the OGL was developed in the first place, and 4E really showed the pains of not having it. So again, by itself, that high of a price tag for the core books is not an automatic killer for the system as a whole , but it does create challenges that in the past WotC has not met particularly well, so I for one will be watching to see if they can finally meet them this time, because I guarantee I won't be buying the core books, as I barely have enough time to play the systems I have already invested in right now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="sunshadow21, post: 6302457, member: 6667193"] You are quite correct, but that requires the starter box to have 5 months of gaming in it, and that is no given at this point in time. It also requires really good adventures or other materials so that those groups are still buying something related to the system beyond that 5 months, and thereby making WotC money. One of 4E's biggest failures was losing the "we sometimes play this" market, and WotC cannot afford to lose that market again. The fact is that the $50 price tag is a notable challenge and concern that cannot simply be brushed aside. If addressed properly, and if the rest of the system supports it, it's a challenge easily dealt with, but it's still there, and it still needs to be addressed. If they want to target the primary game groups with the core books, they need something else to target the secondary audience, and that something else is not something they have done well with in the past; the lack of that something else with 3E was the whole reason the OGL was developed in the first place, and 4E really showed the pains of not having it. So again, by itself, that high of a price tag for the core books is not an automatic killer for the system as a whole , but it does create challenges that in the past WotC has not met particularly well, so I for one will be watching to see if they can finally meet them this time, because I guarantee I won't be buying the core books, as I barely have enough time to play the systems I have already invested in right now. [/QUOTE]

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