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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7691606" data-attributes="member: 12377"><p>Regarding the timing of this announcement: I'm not sure they planned it this way, but this timing is very shrewd.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wizards has released a major product every few months to keep up the buzz. But it's been a while since OotA dropped and excitement is starting to die down. Maybe the next adventure isn't ready to be announced yet?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's after the holidays. Imagine this announcement before the holidays; suddenly a deluge of questionable-quality material is competing with official releases for people's Christmas budget, and may be confusing to non-players trying to buy gifts for their D&D friends.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They waited over a year to open the floodgates, and in that year they focussed efforts on Adventurer's League and adventure paths. They spent that year establishing a new, unified baseline for what the D&D play experience is supposed to be like. Now people submitting things to DM's Guild are going to be thinking things like, "How will my product be most useful to people playing PotA or OotA or HotDQ or whatever Wizards releases next?" If they had opened the floodgates right away when 5E launched, many OGL authors would be thinking, "How will my products be most useful to PF/4E players?" because that's what everybody was back then.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7691606, member: 12377"] Regarding the timing of this announcement: I'm not sure they planned it this way, but this timing is very shrewd. [list] [*]Wizards has released a major product every few months to keep up the buzz. But it's been a while since OotA dropped and excitement is starting to die down. Maybe the next adventure isn't ready to be announced yet? [*]It's after the holidays. Imagine this announcement before the holidays; suddenly a deluge of questionable-quality material is competing with official releases for people's Christmas budget, and may be confusing to non-players trying to buy gifts for their D&D friends. [*]They waited over a year to open the floodgates, and in that year they focussed efforts on Adventurer's League and adventure paths. They spent that year establishing a new, unified baseline for what the D&D play experience is supposed to be like. Now people submitting things to DM's Guild are going to be thinking things like, "How will my product be most useful to people playing PotA or OotA or HotDQ or whatever Wizards releases next?" If they had opened the floodgates right away when 5E launched, many OGL authors would be thinking, "How will my products be most useful to PF/4E players?" because that's what everybody was back then.[/list] [/QUOTE]
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