The gaming group's divorce is finalized

[Phlebas]

I got an update, too. The DM will start a new campaign on an off-night using his homebrew sci-fi d6 system (he's always tinkering with it). He asked me if I'd be willing to be in a third game ever week (holy crap, that's a lot of games!), with just him and two others from the core group. He also intimated that it's too soon for him to switch gears on D&D, and will need an extended hiatus before he can consider 4th Edition.

IOW (cross fingers), he'll run another 2-year long sci-fi campaign, and then consider jumping into a 4th game, after 3.5 is long out of his system.

Something you might want to consider (if 3 games a week get too much) is to have alternate week games with another DM. i did this with my thursday night group a couple of years ago when work was eating too much of my time and never regretted it. it also meant that if one or the other DM went on holiday / hiatus then there was always another game to play.
It does help that we have a common group (bar one who decide he was happier with alternate week games anyway) and it kept the games & DM's fresh. Its also flexible in that i'm now back to running every week as my game hits its climax and then it'll switch back to the other DM while I work on a PFRP campaign.

 

[Dykstrav]

I don't think you did anything "wrong" because the group has changed over time. Groups do that. On a more direct note, the free market (so to speak) has spoken about what sort of game they want to play. When given choices, players gravitate toward the choices they like. Some games fall by the wayside. If anything, I'd take it as a compliment that the players prefer your game and try to keep your old DM on good terms.

At my FLGS, most of the gamers were either looking forward to it or sitting on the fence. I was a fence-sitter myself, and now that 4E is out I'm satisfied with the game itself (the product quality leaves much to be desired, but the actual game is satisfactory). I run a weekly 4E game now, although lately I've gotten an itch to run a Vampire: the Masquerade game. We had one problem guy that went on a huge rant about how 4E is a travesty and WotC owes him the world and all that. But he was a classic GSL 1/2 carrier with problems way beyond gaming, so nobody is missing him.