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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4924553" data-attributes="member: 5143">That's you.  But it isn't everyone.  When I first played 3e, after a couple of session I decided that I'd never play 2e again.  There was just no reason for it.  3e was clearly better.  It solved every problem I had with 2e.When I played 4e, after a couple of sessions I had decided that I'd never play 3e again because it was clearly better.  I was even convinced to play 3e once more after I started playing 4e and I didn't have that much fun.  Stuff that used to be fun just wasn't once I knew there was a better way to do it.Now, obviously you don't agree with this.  Just as a lot of people don't agree that 3e was clearly better than 2e.  That's fine.But to say that the people at WOTC and the people who came online to share their enthusiasm for the game were not ALLOWED to share their opinions because if they no longer find 3e fun or no longer like 3e, then they can never say it, ever....well, that's just dumb.I also find it completely absurd that you can advertise a new edition without ever say anything bad about the old edition.  People will complain that you are insulting the old edition no matter HOW positive you are.You say, "The new edition is great because of simpler, easier to use grapple mechanics" and you have hundreds of people on the internet yelling "They said the grapple rules in 3.5e were complicated and hard to use.  They must really hate the old edition."You say, "We managed to balance the character classes more effectively to make it more fun for everyone" and you have people screaming "They think that it's impossible to have fun with 3e."I saw this happen time and time again.  No matter how positive a comment was, people claimed it was negative advertising.</blockquote>

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