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<blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 3856138" data-attributes="member: 7624">Here's the psychology of it.Those who are hard-core anti-4e, those who are calling it the &quot;New Coke&quot; of D&amp;D are just like everyone else, beholden not to reason but to viceral emotional responses. All people, myself included, react to change emotionally first and this reaction is based on an emotional connection to the product in question regardless of its merits. The only thing that can shake this is a dispassionate analysis of the issue and it is very hard for fans to be objective about their fandom.D&amp;D is king of the hill because it was first. It is a pop-culture icon. For the vast majority of people, RPing is D&amp;D for many people and that is unlikely to change. Marketing 101 states that the first brand in a customer's consciousness is king even if it is a sub-par product. Brand recognition defeats quality unless the product quality is abysmal and even then there is no guarantee a superior product is going to unseat it.I know people who would not buy an xbox360 despite their desire for a next gen system because Sony isn't the Debbil the way MS is. They stuck to their crappy PS2s and now have PS3s. They could care less whether the PS3 is a superior system. What matters to them is that it is a Sony. Irrational as hell, but human nature nonetheless.I am lookihng forward to 4e because I dumped 3.5 long ago for Conan D20 and True20. I am looking forward to 4e because they are getting rid of some antiquated D&amp;Disms and sacred cows that have IMO nothing going for them except nostalgia. I love D&amp;D as a rule set, not as a cllective mythology of some kind. If I want mythology I will go to the rich traditions of the past of our real history which is far, far deeper than anything in D&amp;D.Sundragon</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sundragon2012, post: 3856138, member: 7624"] Here's the psychology of it. Those who are hard-core anti-4e, those who are calling it the "New Coke" of D&D are just like everyone else, beholden not to reason but to viceral emotional responses. All people, myself included, react to change emotionally first and this reaction is based on an emotional connection to the product in question regardless of its merits. The only thing that can shake this is a dispassionate analysis of the issue and it is very hard for fans to be objective about their fandom. D&D is king of the hill because it was first. It is a pop-culture icon. For the vast majority of people, RPing is D&D for many people and that is unlikely to change. Marketing 101 states that the first brand in a customer's consciousness is king even if it is a sub-par product. Brand recognition defeats quality unless the product quality is abysmal and even then there is no guarantee a superior product is going to unseat it. I know people who would not buy an xbox360 despite their desire for a next gen system because Sony isn't the Debbil the way MS is. They stuck to their crappy PS2s and now have PS3s. They could care less whether the PS3 is a superior system. What matters to them is that it is a Sony. Irrational as hell, but human nature nonetheless. I am lookihng forward to 4e because I dumped 3.5 long ago for Conan D20 and True20. I am looking forward to 4e because they are getting rid of some antiquated D&Disms and sacred cows that have IMO nothing going for them except nostalgia. I love D&D as a rule set, not as a cllective mythology of some kind. If I want mythology I will go to the rich traditions of the past of our real history which is far, far deeper than anything in D&D. Sundragon [/QUOTE]

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