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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carnivorous_Bean" data-source="post: 4161321" data-attributes="member: 57974">But those people won't buy 4th edition no matter what it is. If 3rd edition is already perfect in their eyes, they're all set, forever. With the amount of supplementary material, there's surely enough out there to keep playing 3rd for about 10 human lifetimes, even if that's all you do, 16 hours a day.So why aim any marketing, or any features of 4th edition, for that matter, at the people who aren't going to buy it unless it's literally precisely the same as 3rd edition?You keep talking about turning off people who think the grapple rules are fine. Okay, so what are they supposed to do -- "80% of our fan base think the grapple rules stink. 20% think they're fine. But to be all nice-nice pussyfooting cringing lickspittles for every conceivable point of view, we're publishing 300 different sets of grappling rules so that nobody is offended."They have two choices. Keep printing 3rd edition the way it is, forever, or print 4th edition. If they choose the latter, they've got to change whatever their feedback is telling them is unpopular with enough of their customers to make the new edition attractive. Therefore, failing to change something because a few people who aren't going to buy the new edition no matter what anyway don't like it, would be a moronic move on their part. I really don't see what you're arguing for here. You've already got 3rd edition. If it's as absolutely perfect and wonderful as you claim -- or at least ten times better than 4th edition - -then why don't you just go play it?</blockquote>

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