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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3920024" data-attributes="member: 29398">The over-riding question is will 4e bring in enough new players (customers) to offset those who stick with 3e (or earlier) and thus drop out of the market?  If yes, or yes-plus, then all is well.  If no, then just about any possible scenario is in play.3e, for all its failings, brought in gobs of new or returning players and was quite a marketing success.  4e has some rather large shoes to fill here; just how large depends on the bottom-line expectations of WotC/Hasbro, and while for the sake of the game I wish it well it's got a big hill to climb.Oh, and to somewhat echo a post from earlier: of our crew of about 15, as far as I know only 3 - maybe 4 - ever even read ENWorld (though one advertises his business here), and of those I'm the only active participant on the discussion boards.  And believe me, there's times when what I read here and what I hear around the table couldn't be more different! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>