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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4939197" data-attributes="member: 49613">Part of it comes down to this: do you think that the best/only business model for an rpg publisher like WOTC is to keep re-selling new iterations of the rules over and over... to keep making the core audience re-buy what they've already bought several times before?That seems to drive some people's thinking: the only way to keep a brand alive is to keep re-selling the core rules to the core audience, over and over forever. It's basically the "Rent Model"... when you buy the D&D core rules, you're not really buying them; you're only renting them. In four years you'll have to buy the same rules again, only with a few changes to justify the fact that you're blowing another hundred bucks for PHB-DMG-MM.If you think that's the only way an rpg publisher like WOTC can survive and thrive, then 4E is inevitable. As is 5E in a few years, and 6E a few years after that, ad infinitum.I think that not only is that not the only business model, I think it's a short-sighted and ultimately ruinous one. But I understand that if you think the Rent Model is the only possible one, you've got nowhere to go but "Edition +1" as soon as you publish all the rules you can realistically publish.</blockquote>