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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 952710" data-attributes="member: 1225">You were joking when you inferred that Dr_rictus is un-intelligent, right? Forgot the smiley? Doing your Hong impression?FWIW, WotC has to make money. Yay money. The US automobile industry, in the '70s, adopted a policy of purposefully building cars that would become obsolescent in a few years, so that consumers would be driven to purchase new cars -- thus insuring a steady and profitable income source for themselves. This ultimately damaged the US automotive industry. (That's all as I recall & understand it; disclaimers apply, no warranty given, etc.)Also as I understand it, Games Workshop purposefully releases new versions of their games every few years, versions that are largely incompatible with the prior versions; this insures that there are new game sells, new mini sales, etc. They expect to turnover their entire customer base every few years. And it's working for them.My cynical, pessimistic, un-(or barely-)founded hypothetical concern is that WotC/Hasbro's management will decide to adopt a similar policy for D&D. It's clear that there are elements of D&D 3.5e that are already generating, umm, vigorous discussion of the sort that allegedly prompted D&D 3.5e. I think it's reasonable to expect that there may be other things (changes or un-changes) that we haven't yet seen that will prompt more chatter.So will WotC/Hasbro/Zurich Gnomes management decide in a couple of years that a new edition is needed? If so, will whoever is in R&D at that point be able to "make lemonade" (to quote Monte out of context in an entirely new way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) as effectively as the current crew? And will that hypothetical new edition contain the seeds of yet another new edition?</blockquote>

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