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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5428451" data-attributes="member: 58197">Granted, they can't just do the same thing year in and year out. But if you've been doing well, you build on your successes. You don't throw a bunch of stuff out and start over.Take Essentials. If WotC were doing well with 4E, I would have expected to see the Essentials classes rolled out as a new optional splatbook--"Exciting Variant Builds For Your Favorite Classes!" If that book became popular, they would build on it and make it bigger, but it would start out as an adjunct to the main line, where support for it could be quietly dropped if it turned out not to be what people wanted.Instead, Essentials is the New Core! It's the face of D&D from here on out. WotC has bet the farm on it--if Essentials tanks, they're not going to be able to just quietly migrate back to 4E classic. That's a risky move, the sort of thing you do when things are going badly and you need a game-changer.Then there's the Character Builder migrating to an online app, with Adventure Tools to follow; the cancellation of DDM; half their upcoming book releases being canceled... it all screams "Abandon ship! Abandon ship! Women and Mogs first!"</blockquote>