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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5688120" data-attributes="member: 7006">Here's a few things that I think are probably guaranteed for 5th edition:* If the skirmish game miniatures they produce ends up selling good to very good... there WILL be a miniature component of the game.  Selling Dungeon Tiles and miniatures are good additional revenue for the company.  Now this isn't to say they won't also make a version of the game that doesn't require them (a la the different 'modules' idea that Mearls talked about), but if it ends up being either/or... they're going to fall on the side that generates extra money for them.* Options "bloat" will happen.  Player options sell books and DDI subscriptions.  That means some things will be 'held back' from the initial set of books for a second or third PHB, or "Power" books or whatever.  They probably will include much more fluff than the 4E versions did (to partially counteract the "just wait for the info to appear in DDI" syndrome), but WotC won't make their money just selling setting material.  They'll produce as much crunch as necessary so long as most people buy it.* While some books will be printed, the focus and expectation of players will be for them to join DDI.  If you choose not to join, that'll be fine... but you'll just be missing out on most of the focus and highlights of the game.  The subscription model has been their probable most consistent generation of monthly revenue, and there's no way they'll get rid of it.* There will never again be an OGL.  With WotC's desire and expectation that most of their revenue will continue to be via DDI... if there is an OGL the player base will begin making demands that the 3rd party OGL content created be able to be added to the online tools like the Character and Monster Builder.  As WotC will never allow that to happen... they won't even want to listen to the incessant complaints about it from the player base, and will take the financial hit by not opening up the game to the OGL.All the other stuff like rules changes or whatever are just minor quibbles in the grand scheme of things.  These things though are at the heart and soul of revenue generation for Wizards of the Coast, and thus I think are most likely to come about.</blockquote>

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