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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8704751" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Your question seems a bit insistent here. That is, people are suggesting that your formulation of the question is a bit flawed (as it assumes some things that are either impossible, deeply unwise, or extremely unlikely), and your response seems to have been &quot;okay but what if these things happened anyway?&quot;So...if WotC is so unwise as to leave large numbers of &quot;unrevised&quot; books in circulation, and the new books somehow tank really really hard and are rejected by the player base, AND the market almost exclusively turns to 3PP or even other games (like PF2e), then they'll probably notice after a year or two, their profits will drop, and they'll pack it in and start working on 6e.Like... you're basically saying, &quot;What if 5.5e just fails?&quot; And the answer is almost surely, &quot;then we'll get 6e.&quot; Hasbro has seen that D&amp;D can make money, perhaps even a lot of money. They won't let that golden goose just keel over.But, again, all of this is extremely unlikely. Core books always sell well. Doesn't matter the edition. People want to try the new hotness. And, as I noted in another thread, I think 5e has finally gotten completely past the honeymoon/&quot;puppy love&quot; infatuation phase, and people are starting to be more critical than effusive. That doesn't mean they hate it, but it does mean the overall tone seems to be one ready for change (though there are major holdouts constantly complaining, as is always the case with change.)It's a bit like asking &quot;what if the JWST fails to deploy?&quot;, getting told all the safeguards and tests etc. done to prevent that possibility, and then asking &quot;okay but what if it fails anyway?&quot; The answer is in the question: it fails, so we probably try again with something different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8704751, member: 6790260"] Your question seems a bit insistent here. That is, people are suggesting that your formulation of the question is a bit flawed (as it assumes some things that are either impossible, deeply unwise, or extremely unlikely), and your response seems to have been "okay but what if these things happened anyway?" So...if WotC is so unwise as to leave large numbers of "unrevised" books in circulation, and the new books somehow tank really really hard and are rejected by the player base, AND the market almost exclusively turns to 3PP or even other games (like PF2e), then they'll probably notice after a year or two, their profits will drop, and they'll pack it in and start working on 6e. Like... you're basically saying, "What if 5.5e just fails?" And the answer is almost surely, "then we'll get 6e." Hasbro has seen that D&D can make money, perhaps even a lot of money. They won't let that golden goose just keel over. But, again, all of this is extremely unlikely. Core books always sell well. Doesn't matter the edition. People want to try the new hotness. And, as I noted in another thread, I think 5e has finally gotten completely past the honeymoon/"puppy love" infatuation phase, and people are starting to be more critical than effusive. That doesn't mean they [I]hate[/I] it, but it does mean the overall tone seems to be one ready for change (though there are major holdouts constantly complaining, as is always the case with change.) It's a bit like asking "what if the JWST fails to deploy?", getting told all the safeguards and tests etc. done to prevent that possibility, and then asking "okay but what if it fails anyway?" The answer is in the question: it fails, so we probably try again with something different. [/QUOTE]

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