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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5810407" data-attributes="member: 73683">Seriously?Is it your assertion that we've never experienced an edition change, and thus have no idea what it feels like to buy into a new edition and leave the old one behind?Because it certainly sounds like that's your assertion. And, if it is, you're flat out wrong.It's not supposed to be. It's supposed to drive home how ridiculous it is to complain about someone publishing more books. You are not forced to buy into anything. Your old books work fine. Your game can continue uninterrupted.Why?No they aren't.I'm a 4e fan (a really big 4e fan), and I'm not feeling ridiculed or segregated at all. I was also a 3.5 fan, and similarly I didn't feel ridiculed or segregated when 4e was announced? You know why? Because I don't go looking for new and exciting ways to be insulted.I've seen precious few 4e fans whining about 5e. I think, if anything, 4e fans tend to be excited about new cool things in the hobby.To whom, exactly?If it backfires on them, it will be difficult to not place the blame squarely at the feet of the whiners, for actually managing to find something to be enraged and incensed over in their utterly saccharine and kumbaya-like marketing campaign. It's like they're doing everything in their power to avoid offending anyone because of how hideously the community reacted last time. And you're still finding ways to act appalled.You know this, of course, because of your time travel skills.No.No, what creates edition war hostility is fans of the old edition hunting for new ways to be offended by the new edition coming out, and going nuclear with vitriol. The "they're not burning your books" lines are an effort to get those people to calm down.First, you haven't paid for the material, in the same sense that you might pay for a book. You've purchased access to it on a recurring basis. Second, if you're so concerned about losing it, dump the PDF files to a local disk (or, if you're concerned about losing access to that somehow, a cloud archive). Ta-da! You now have it forever.Until the WotC ninjas show up and burn Google's cloud servers to the ground.</blockquote>

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