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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6556669" data-attributes="member: 5143">Why would they talk to the community?&nbsp; The community is just going to say &quot;Where's our books?&nbsp; You made a book every month during 3e and 4e...bring that back.&nbsp; We were comfortable with that and we want things to stay the same.&quot;The problem is that people like things that are comfortable.&nbsp; They don't want to take risks.&nbsp; They also don't always know what is good for them.&nbsp; Human brains pretty much always assume their situation is the majority situation.&nbsp; They want books, so of course EVERYONE wants books.Plus, most of these decisions have to be made with business in mind.&nbsp; Which often means making decisions for some reasons that the community would likely get very angry at.&nbsp; Imagine if they came out and said &quot;We think that the entire run from beginning to end of this edition has about 15 splatbooks in it.&nbsp; Once we release 15 books, we will have no more ideas and therefore no more profit.&nbsp; We will have to create another edition and start the process over again.&nbsp; If we release those books at 5 a year, the edition will be over in 3 years.&nbsp; If we release them once a year, then we have 15 years before we need another edition.&quot;Most people would get very angry about &quot;artificially increasing the lifespan of the edition for profit reasons&quot;.&nbsp; I can see posts stating &quot;You mean, I can't use werewolves as PCs in my game for another 10 years all because WOTC wants to make me wait until that book comes out?&quot;I suspect that, right now, they are considering a release schedule that involves them breaking up the amount of material they would have put into one book and splitting that information up into small articles that they can post very slowly over the next year.&nbsp; That way they can keep people coming to their website over and over again.&nbsp; That means customers have reasons to continue thinking about D&amp;D for the next year while simultaneously avoiding product bloat on store shelves.How they will make money off of that model is anyone's guess really.&nbsp; Which is probably what they are discussing now(or have been for the last couple of months).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6556669, member: 5143"] Why would they talk to the community? The community is just going to say "Where's our books? You made a book every month during 3e and 4e...bring that back. We were comfortable with that and we want things to stay the same." The problem is that people like things that are comfortable. They don't want to take risks. They also don't always know what is good for them. Human brains pretty much always assume their situation is the majority situation. They want books, so of course EVERYONE wants books. Plus, most of these decisions have to be made with business in mind. Which often means making decisions for some reasons that the community would likely get very angry at. Imagine if they came out and said "We think that the entire run from beginning to end of this edition has about 15 splatbooks in it. Once we release 15 books, we will have no more ideas and therefore no more profit. We will have to create another edition and start the process over again. If we release those books at 5 a year, the edition will be over in 3 years. If we release them once a year, then we have 15 years before we need another edition." Most people would get very angry about "artificially increasing the lifespan of the edition for profit reasons". I can see posts stating "You mean, I can't use werewolves as PCs in my game for another 10 years all because WOTC wants to make me wait until that book comes out?" I suspect that, right now, they are considering a release schedule that involves them breaking up the amount of material they would have put into one book and splitting that information up into small articles that they can post very slowly over the next year. That way they can keep people coming to their website over and over again. That means customers have reasons to continue thinking about D&D for the next year while simultaneously avoiding product bloat on store shelves. How they will make money off of that model is anyone's guess really. Which is probably what they are discussing now(or have been for the last couple of months). [/QUOTE]

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