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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5894297" data-attributes="member: 98255">Haha, are you new here? Did you read the threads on ENWorld about the announcement of 5e? It was chock full of grave-dancing. And I still see it, here and there, to this day. This is not something I expect will stop any time soon either. Those folks were the ones more butthurt by the 3.x --> 4e edition change and its associated marketing blunders, and they won't be happy until WotC is no longer producing D&D, or the company does some massive backpedalling.Incidentally, I've seen the '4e is New Coke' thing come up a couple of times and I wanted to point out that New Coke failed due to marketing almost exclusively, and had very little to do with how it tasted. In fact, in blind taste-tests, it outperformed the regular product. Maybe the comparison is more apt than we realize. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My point being that if 4e were not called "D&D 4e" nobody would have a problem with it. Heck, it could even have been called D&D, but marketed like Battlesystem, and it still would have done fine. But people fear change, and they fear things that are new. And yes, some just didn't like it, and that's fine. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#cite_note-Prendergast355-4" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#cite_note-Prendergast355-4</a></blockquote>

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