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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5444494" data-attributes="member: 59506">True, as far as that goes. What's missing from the above analogy is: DDI itself has the potential to be the RPG industry equivalent of WalMart. If WalMart sold only Coke, ignoring Pepsi and others, that would be a very foolish business decision. Ignoring a large pool of potential customers to which you alone have a real ability to tap, is a foolish business decision. (P.S.: that would mean Paizo is Target, RPGNow is Costco...and Palladium is K-mart.<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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)   You're right, they won't get an additionally significant amount of people who don't prefer 4E, to play 4E. The only way you get this large group of people to by a DDI sub is to provide things they will pay for. As far as new players though, WotC has made their play for new players...and although I'm not saying they won't get anymore, the initial big bump of a new edition is over. All they can hope for now is a slow, steady stream of new players - which history has shown tapers off over the life of an edition. So eventually, out comes a new edition. You (TheFindus) have stuck with D&D for 30 years, through multiple editions - but a significant portion of players don't (possibly a majority of players). A significant portion of customers are lost with each new edition - an amount when combining all previous edition players, I believe, is a larger group than players of the current edition. As history has shown, this is a situation that will only increase with each subsequent edition. So, more customers have been left behind than new customers have been gained...and history shows that a significant portion of WotC's new customers will not switch when a new edition comes out. When 5E comes out, as is eventually inevitable, many of the current customers will fall away to continue with 4E - unless WotC maintains DDI support for 4E! The same thing is true for all other previous editions. Remember, 4E will likely be a "previous" edition someday also.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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