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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 3857942" data-attributes="member: 51747">I don't see how, frankly, WotC could do that.  Releasing a new edition is ALOT of work, and I am quite sure they aren't putting in all this work right now just to have it boost ebay sales of their old books.  Doing my own research on what it takes to start a RPG company turned up this little quote (<a href="http://forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-129751.html" target="_blank">reference</a>):   At first I just thought this was merely good information.  But then I remembered this quote (<a href="http://www.enworld.org/archive/index.php/t-170472.html" target="_blank">reference</a>):emphasis mine.It would only make sense for hasbro/wotc to have a plan to sell of D&D if it was no longer financially viable to keep it.  Granted, the emotional attachment that the guys at WotC have to the game would make such a decision quite difficult, but considering that 4E was in the works more then a year before this leak was made public and it turns out wotc has already given us sufficient informaiton to believe that that it will have "Much smaller bundles of game info, packaged and sold separately" (random virtual minis, anyone?).  While we don't know how mini-centric 4E is yet, I imagine it will be similar to SWSE.  Saga edition owners, feel free to verify or say otherwise.  If all three of these are true (and it looks like they are), it would also be logical to assume that the last is, at least, partly true.  But an alternative in the business plan could include something similar to this (<a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/gaming/4thEdition/40PAIZOISSTILLUNDECIDED&page=4#307086" target="_blank">reference</a>):EDIT:  Frankly, I wouldn't call the plan Mona presented in the 2nd Paragraph as "diabolical," but rather what some may feel as a viable long term strategy to increase corporate profits.  (For the record, I have NOTHING against a company making a profit as long as the consumer is not being "gouged" and gouging is difficult to do in a luxery/hobby market.)  With this plan, those against the OGL can say, "Ok, we gave the OGL 2 editions now (or 3 if you count 3.5 as a seperate edition in all but name) and it hasn't done us much good.  Lets release 5.0 nonOGL," and it will be difficult to counter.</blockquote>

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