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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7992284" data-attributes="member: 18">If WoW was still in the same "edition" it was when it launched, though, WoW would have become a minor game sometime around 2010. Other MMOs would have exceeded it in popularity and so on. Classic is popular, but only as popular as it is because it exists as a contrast to later versions, and because its on the same sub as retail WoW.WoW keeps its youth by bathing in the blood of er... oh that's not WoW, let me check my notes... WoW keeps its youth by eternally refreshing itself, constantly reinventing itself. The last major reboot was with Legion, but every 2 years or so we see an expansion that makes fairly significant changes and fixes to how the game plays and feels.So I think comparisons to WoW and Win 10 are... confused. If they took the 4E strategy of regularly, sweeping errata, and frequent, large-scale rules-additions, then that would make sense. 4E was well-positioned to take a WoW-like or Win 10-like approach (yes, I said it, you heard me, you can quote me, I hear the shrieks of glee! Being positioned to take an approach is different from being something but the constant errata were probably the thing that most resembled MMOs about 4E).5E is the opposite in design. 5E is very static, with very little errata. 5E is unchanging, and even the rules-additions so far have mostly been fairly minor. That does mean, however, at some point its likely to feel like it needs a larger overhaul, and realistically, that's going to mean 6E. I don't think the actual trigger for 6E will be the rules being outdated per se, though. I think the real trigger will be that WotC feels like they can make more money by having everyone online and playing not an MMO, but a fancy VTT version of D&D, which you can optionally play at the table too (hilariously, this was 4E's vision too, but it was over a decade too early, technologically and socially). They're letting Beyond pioneer this for them, whilst they build up multiple AAA software studios under the WotC brand, one of whom could very definitely implement such a thing. That's what will trigger 6E, anyway. I figure its 5-7 years out, myself.</blockquote>

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