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<blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 6533433" data-attributes="member: 51747"><p>That's the thing ... If I leave, I won't come back. Take Star Wars for example. I was all excited when Edge of the Empire came out. I wanted to play a Jedi on the run from the Empire and the start of the Rebellion. Then I saw that Fantasy Flight wasn't releasing the rules for playing a Jedi for several years. They're coming out soon and ... I don't care. I've moved on. I love the TV show on Disney and I can't wait for the movie but my enthusiasm has waned for the game and I moved on. And I know the same will be true with 5e.</p><p></p><p>And it is not just me. Ryan Dancey cited this very thing at the outset of the OGL. Its called <a href="http://www.enworld.org/ericnoah/interview_dancey.html" target="_blank">Network Externalities</a>. Basically, if nothing that interests me is offered (as I cited in my reasons), I'm more likely to go elsewhere and not return. But I am more likely to stay close if something else for the same system is offered that I does interest me. For example, I own all of the Pathfinder Campaign setting material up to a certain point (when I stopped playing in their setting). However, I was still their customer because I was buying their hardcovers as well as Adventure A Week's adventures and Dreamscarred's psionics rules and so on. So even though, I was not playing in Paizo's world, I was still their customer. But when I finally stopped playing Pathfinder, I stopped buying their hard covers. I left. Had those pathfinder compatible publishers (aka network externalities) not been there, I would have left some time before. But it was Pathfinder Compatible publishers that kept me playing when my interest would have otherwise waned. Maybe if I had gotten into a campaign that was focused in Pathfinder's campaign setting, I would have gone back to buying their material. But now that I have stopped playing, it is less likely that I will pick up the game again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmccoy1693, post: 6533433, member: 51747"] That's the thing ... If I leave, I won't come back. Take Star Wars for example. I was all excited when Edge of the Empire came out. I wanted to play a Jedi on the run from the Empire and the start of the Rebellion. Then I saw that Fantasy Flight wasn't releasing the rules for playing a Jedi for several years. They're coming out soon and ... I don't care. I've moved on. I love the TV show on Disney and I can't wait for the movie but my enthusiasm has waned for the game and I moved on. And I know the same will be true with 5e. And it is not just me. Ryan Dancey cited this very thing at the outset of the OGL. Its called [URL="http://www.enworld.org/ericnoah/interview_dancey.html"]Network Externalities[/URL]. Basically, if nothing that interests me is offered (as I cited in my reasons), I'm more likely to go elsewhere and not return. But I am more likely to stay close if something else for the same system is offered that I does interest me. For example, I own all of the Pathfinder Campaign setting material up to a certain point (when I stopped playing in their setting). However, I was still their customer because I was buying their hardcovers as well as Adventure A Week's adventures and Dreamscarred's psionics rules and so on. So even though, I was not playing in Paizo's world, I was still their customer. But when I finally stopped playing Pathfinder, I stopped buying their hard covers. I left. Had those pathfinder compatible publishers (aka network externalities) not been there, I would have left some time before. But it was Pathfinder Compatible publishers that kept me playing when my interest would have otherwise waned. Maybe if I had gotten into a campaign that was focused in Pathfinder's campaign setting, I would have gone back to buying their material. But now that I have stopped playing, it is less likely that I will pick up the game again. [/QUOTE]
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