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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4214063" data-attributes="member: 957">Or rather it will be a realization that 4E was a step backwards.....&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Either way, 5E will be a ways off.&nbsp; If 4E manages to grab enough new players to be popular, they will milk it for a while&nbsp; (as they well should).&nbsp; If 4E drops off fast in the first couple years, there will be a real hesitation to invest in development all over again.That said, I think it will be less than the 9 years of 3X.&nbsp; From a market POV 3.5 certainly had issues.&nbsp; But it did re-set the life cycle as far as WotC selling splat-books is considered.&nbsp;&nbsp; It didn't recover the boom of the first release of 3E, but it probably increased the total life by a good two years.&nbsp; So if they stand by their no 4.5 pledge, then I'd guess 6, maybe 7 years.&nbsp;Very true.&nbsp; Good point.I think you should say: &quot;They TRY to do that by...&quot;I'm highly skeptical that the current level of acceptance amongst 3E players would be called &quot;securing&quot; the market share.&nbsp; Not that this was by design, of course.&nbsp; But it is the results that count.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 4214063, member: 957"] Or rather it will be a realization that 4E was a step backwards..... ;) Either way, 5E will be a ways off. If 4E manages to grab enough new players to be popular, they will milk it for a while (as they well should). If 4E drops off fast in the first couple years, there will be a real hesitation to invest in development all over again. That said, I think it will be less than the 9 years of 3X. From a market POV 3.5 certainly had issues. But it did re-set the life cycle as far as WotC selling splat-books is considered. It didn't recover the boom of the first release of 3E, but it probably increased the total life by a good two years. So if they stand by their no 4.5 pledge, then I'd guess 6, maybe 7 years. Very true. Good point. I think you should say: "They TRY to do that by..." I'm highly skeptical that the current level of acceptance amongst 3E players would be called "securing" the market share. Not that this was by design, of course. But it is the results that count. [/QUOTE]

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