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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5433916" data-attributes="member: 6667746">I would say that it more impossible, and even more so insulting. Take the 4th edition video as an example of this at it's highest.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbbqMoEwDqc]YouTube - Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Teaser[/ame]As well the marketing that blatantly said "you're doing it wrong" if you played D&D prior to 4th.We can all see how easily that insults many customers and makes them move away. That said, any thing done that tries, even passive aggressively, to force the customer to accept change because you want them to change to buy the product is down right foolish and insulting and deserves the same response. You lose customers.It is your job to produce a quality product that makes people want to buy it. The customer decides how to spend their money. This whole thinking the customer owes the company something of this new age marketing crap needs to die and die fast.You want to sell product to the customer, you don't blow smoke up their <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />, you kiss their <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />.Some people like change for the sake of change, but then theur are smart people, ones that know they make their own decisions. Kenmore doesn't make a washer that suit you anymore and you need a new one, you own no loyalties to Kenmore, you paid for their continued service; so you are free to buy a MayTag when your Kenmore is no longer serviceable due to discontinuation/whatever...such as the same goes for D&D in any edition. Except you will not be out of D&D books for older editions until their are no longer usable, and even bad condition books in today's world are easily repaired with a little bit of money, lamination, mold removal, hole punches, etc so that you can continue to use them for a long time to come.I would reword that to something closer to "Make changes in accordance with what the players will enjoy and find acceptable".The American Civil War was the result of "working to get people to accept change".</blockquote>

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