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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 4911483" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>Technically, "non-switchers" probably still play D&D, it just happens to be 3.XE, or an early edition and many probably still buy Dungeon Tiles, Miniatures and maybe the occasional setting book or adventure to convert.  They would probably still buy older edition PDF products if they existed, as well.  If they are like me, they might have been an avid customer who was also a DM but now doesn't DM the new edition and therefore needs very little new product in that regard.  The few games I play, the DM provides a pregen or updates an ongoing character and brings them to the game.  They might get more of my money if they brought back PDF sales of older stuff, but that wouldn't get them much, or if they published parallel older material, but even that would be a crap shoot and I wouldn't advise it from a business standpoint.  Honestly, I think they are doing the best they can and that some of us are just never going to be big WotC customers again, not that we wouldn't have liked to have been or necessarily have anything personal against the current direction.  The new game just doesn't give me (us?) as much of the interest-grabbing feeling that previous editions did.  I suppose a cross-edition DDI might be a money maker for WotC, since it would promise a steady revenue stream but that is unlikely to be an investment the new direction supports.</p></blockquote><p></p>