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<blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5236708" data-attributes="member: 75065">Scribble Said: (sorry I forgot to quote you when I sent the message)&quot;&quot;&quot;I wonder if they've decided that new editions, and half editions are bad for business... They divide players, cause &quot;wars&quot; and just get people annoyed at &quot;having&quot; to re-buy stuff in an updated form.I'm guessing that instead 4e is just going to continue to grow and change almost organically, so 5 or 6 years from now the game may be dramatically different then it was in 2008, but the edition will still say 4th.I mean look at how different stuff is even now?We might never even see an official 5th edition, or if we do, it won't be new books... Just updates to the core 4e rules. When they come out with new editions of Magic does it invalidate all the previous cards?&quot;&quot;&quot;This makes sense. I'm not sure even the most ardent detractors of 4e would deny that WotC has learnt from its mistakes. Dividing their market so drastically is something I'm sure they won't want to have happen again.I think wherever the boat is going, we should keep in mind who is captain at the helm. A man who has openly expressed that a) he is not going to give up on bringing 'lost' players/customers back onto the boatand b) that he wants to recapture the nostalgia that he experienced when he first began playing dnd within the new edition.1. They are not going to risk a backlash from current happy players 2. They want to simplify things for new players3. They want the same product to be interesting to current players4. They have said that much of the new material released will be compatible with current materialUntil the product comes out and we can judge if they have achieved those goals it's hard speculate. However if we are going to speculate i think that those supposed goals should cast a light on how we speculate until we can fully judge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jbear, post: 5236708, member: 75065"] Scribble Said: (sorry I forgot to quote you when I sent the message) """I wonder if they've decided that new editions, and half editions are bad for business... They divide players, cause "wars" and just get people annoyed at "having" to re-buy stuff in an updated form. I'm guessing that instead 4e is just going to continue to grow and change almost organically, so 5 or 6 years from now the game may be dramatically different then it was in 2008, but the edition will still say 4th. I mean look at how different stuff is even now? We might never even see an official 5th edition, or if we do, it won't be new books... Just updates to the core 4e rules. When they come out with new editions of Magic does it invalidate all the previous cards?""" This makes sense. I'm not sure even the most ardent detractors of 4e would deny that WotC has learnt from its mistakes. Dividing their market so drastically is something I'm sure they won't want to have happen again. I think wherever the boat is going, we should keep in mind who is captain at the helm. A man who has openly expressed that a) he is not going to give up on bringing 'lost' players/customers back onto the boat and b) that he wants to recapture the nostalgia that he experienced when he first began playing dnd within the new edition. 1. They are not going to risk a backlash from current happy players 2. They want to simplify things for new players 3. They want the same product to be interesting to current players 4. They have said that much of the new material released will be compatible with current material Until the product comes out and we can judge if they have achieved those goals it's hard speculate. However if we are going to speculate i think that those supposed goals should cast a light on how we speculate until we can fully judge. [/QUOTE]

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