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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5468803" data-attributes="member: 19675">Actually, Coke was initially replaced by New Coke, which generated backlash and a rapid decline in sales just months after the launch.  When the original returned to the market, sales of NC continued to fall, until they stabilized...after NC became Coke II, under which name it sold until 2006.But Coke didn't stop making other drinks after NC's debacle: the company has a beverage line of over a thousand products, some of which are non-diet, non-"Coke" colas that are profit makers.If you look at the major international auto manufacturers, they've been releasing mechanical clones of cars with cosmetic differences for decades, some indistinguishable until you get inside or check the badging.It would be differentiated from 3.5Ed, which is precisely what they did.  They would just be able to do it in a more pronounced way, like by having an entirely different cosmology (in addition to changes I listed previously).Because?Because they ticked off a lot of people generally happy with 3.5Ed who saw 4Ed as an unwelcome replacement with too many changes...but who nonetheless may have been open to an entirely different game.  People who didn't personally lose any respect for 4Ed's designers could have evaluated the game on it's own merits as opposed to as a changing of what had gone before.If you take me to my favorite steakhouse and tell me they added fish to the menu, I may try the fish.  If you take me to my favorite steakhouse and tell me fish has replaced all of the beef on the menu, I may well be pissed.  (And I'm from New Orleans- I LOVE seafood.)</blockquote>

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