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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3813436" data-attributes="member: 2205">I think that's obvious.  So they can continue to get products of the edition that (at the moment, based on the little info they have) they prefer.Honestly, although I'm not up in arms at all about any of this, for me personally I can't say that I don't think it'd be a good thing.  If I stick with 3.5, for instance, and don't upgrade to 4e, then someday I reach the point where there's nothing else left in 3.5 that I want to buy.  Unless the market splits.I don't think it'd be a good thing for the publishers, or the market as a whole.  But for me personally it would be.  Until the economic realities set in and I couldn't get products for entirely different reasons (i.e., it's just not profitable for folks to publish them for the reduced market anymore so they stop, or something.)I guess I'm kinda like Philotomy here; I don't feel any sense of responsibility or stewardship for the hobby as a whole.  Ideally, everyone who made any RPG product at all would consult me before doing so to find out exactly what I want the product to have.  My concern is getting what I want.  This is a consumer driven economy, as always.So when folks think that it'd be a good thing for the market to split into 4e vs 3.5 or even 3.75 camps, all they mean is that "4e is coming; we already know, but I'm not interested.  If we split, then I can continue to get products that I want.  Therefore, naturally, I'm in favor of that."  I think it's perfectly reasonable as a wish or desire.It's much less reasonable as an expectation but I can certainly understand why people would wish that it could be so.</blockquote>

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