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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3288979" data-attributes="member: 7883">Collated and organized rules?  Maybe.  And I'm not going to question their market research, as I have only annecdotal evidence to compare against.....but I don't *agree* with the assessment that gamer will buy outright new editions every 3-4 years.  There are so many supplemental books etc. that making wholesale edition changes will (I think) fragment their customer base.Probably many of us here are EN World are atypical customers....both from the fact that we're all sitting on a message board talking about the game, but also from the perspective that many of us have probably purchased many books over the years.  If they started doing edition changes every 3-4 years, I'd probably fall behind and stop bothering to buy, and I don't think I'm alone in that feeling.  This is not a hobby of buying trading or gaming cards.  At an average price of $30-40, gaming books are expensive....once you have 40, 50, 60 books, that's a significant expense.  I won't use the term "investment" because the books rarely gain value.  I know I could probably sell my Dark Sun collection for $100 or $200...but it cost far more than that to get it in the first place....hence it's not an investment.The problem isn't the core rules....so much as it is everything *depending* on the core rules....the complete books, the equipment guide, the various monster manuals, the adventures, the races series, the "nomicon series", etc.  Changing from 3E to 4E would invalidate that material.  Sure, it can be converted, but that's a lot of work.  There's plenty of 2E stuff which still hasn't been converted.  So given that I've probably got 40-50 rulebooks based on 3/3.5, there's really not much incentive to buy a 4.0 MM/PHB/DMG, whereas I'd probably continue to purchase 3.5 supplements.Many of us don't use the minis, so incorporating them further into the rules might not be the wisest move.  Or maybe, I'm the exception rather than the rule.  I know in my group that most of us have purchased minis, but we get maybe 5% use out of our minis.  Everyone's purchased some, but there's one guy that plays the minis game on alternate nights, so he keeps collecting.  He has so many that most of never get a chance to use our own, so 5 of the 6 people in the group have stopped buying any more, and only one guy is purchasing them at this point.  I don't think I've even opened my minis container in 2-3 months.Those are just my thoughts.Banshee</blockquote>

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