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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5696841" data-attributes="member: 94022">For starters, I personally believe that DDi is a great value -- particularly if you are a DM.  The online monster builder is pretty decent now.  Its certainly not perfect but I actually like it more than the old offline one (though I admit that this is in large part due to the fact that I don't need to export any of my monsters).Second, as others have stated, WotC will almost certainly announce 5ed at GenCon, which means an announcement next August at the earliest.  Factor in months of hype, previews and marketing, and you are probably looking at an April release at the earliest (much like with 4ed).  Put that together and you have at least 18 months before 5ed hits the shelves.Finally, based on their comments about trying to make out of print editions available, and based on some of what I saw in the VTT beta, I suspect that if and when they do come out with a new edition, they intend to keep the online tools for 4ed up and running.  The only real catch would be that there would be a minimal amount of new material for 4ed.  There's just too much money to be made with DDi for WotC to flat out dump the 4ed player base that does not want to convert to 5ed.  They know they lost customers when they switched to 4ed (though also brought new customers in), but if they can still get $6 - $7 a month (or whatever the price ends up) from people who do not buy into 5ed, then why wouldn't they?  Until it starts to cost them more to keep the online tools up for 4ed than they bring in with subscriptions for it, it just doesn't make sense to dump them.All of this in my opinion of course as I do not work for WotC.  <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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