Just curious, where did you go to access the internet in 1992?I've been on the internet for 29 years now, and I've seen countless edition changes for various games and countless updates to TV shows and reboots and so on.
I don't think this is true. If we look at history I think opposite is actually true more often than not.But even then... you look at previous edition changes, and it looks in all cases like most people picked up the new edition, despite any amount of grousing.
When we went from 1E to 2E most did not pick it up, as a matter of fact it bankrupted TSR. I was playing then and everyone I knew kept playing 1E, perhaps with a few rules taken from 2E, but they did not transition and most importantly they did not purchase the books.
4E again did not bring the 3E players along, most of them either kept playing 3E or moved to pathfinder, enough that pathfinder actually outsold D&D some years during this era..
5E brought in millions of new players, that is where the growth has been although it did bring in people who were still playing 1E and 3E.
I think if we look at history, what happened 5E is unique, not the norm.
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