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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6305517" data-attributes="member: 2525">Right...your last sentence is proof OGLs extend the life of a prior edition, which makes the community splits more intense and the ability to transition to a new edition that much harder each time.  Also, had you continued you would have been a voice to others to stay with 1e, perhaps peeling off others on the fence between 1e and 2e to stay with 2e.  You might have also been a voice for edition warring, fracturing the community more.  From WOTCs (or in this hypothetical, TSRs) perspective, you stopping D&D at that point is BETTER for them than you continuing with an edition that makes them zero money and also potentially lures others away from buying things that make them money, and making the community more negative in general for discussions of things that make them money.  Unification under a edition they make money off of, is always in their better interest than splits between things that do and do not make them money.Nobody is talking about forcing anyone to do anything at all.  Continued support is incentive to continue with the prior game for many.  I don't know where you're getting this idea of anyone being forced to do something, but it is a strawman.More importantly, you seem to be mistaking my argument that is intended to help people understand WOTCs perspective, as my own opinion as a fan.  I don't know how many more times I can say "This is WOTCs perspective, not the perspective of fans or third parties" but I guess I need to keep saying that as long as people confuse it.I think many people like to play a supported game, and that level of support is important to them.  So all things being equal they will continue to play the game they are currently playing, but if support ends for it and starts for something new, they will turn to the something new for the support.I will give you another example - I am just now moving on from Windows XP, because support just ended.  I would have stuck with XP for quite a while more, had they not ended support.  This is just how many people are - why stop a good thing, unless it's no longer as good a thing?Nobody said huge majority.  This is all an issue of material numbers of people peeling off with each edition, not majorities.  Remember, it's INDEFINITE.  It will never end.  100 years from now, this will still be an issue.  Each new edition, it will continue to get worse.  It never ends, making it a horrible decision from WOTCs position.</blockquote>

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