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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4449956" data-attributes="member: 59506">I agree 100%.  If there was no new material for a campaign setting, fans would either let it die a quiet death, or make up there own stuff.  If a campaign is updated, and people don't like it, they can either let it die a quiet death (or complain loudly for a "not so quiet death"), or make up there own stuff.  Same thing either way.  So how does this hurt anybody or come off as unfair. As far as resetting a campaign back to zero, I think this would be absolute suicide for a game company.  If you do this you have only two options: 1. Take the campaign back to the beginning - keep everything that happened in the previous timeline as canon - essentially reprint all of the old material, but updated for your new system - and then have everybody play back through events that are already written in stone. 2. Take the campaign back to the beginning, and then start anew - creating new history and events (a complete retcon and re-envisioning). The problem with #1 is very few people enjoy running campaigns and adventures where they have no control over major events (as has been said by a lot of people on these forums - example: FR Avatar Crisis adventures).  I just don't see how a game company could make adequate revenue off this approach. The problem with #2 is, if fans feel abandoned and betrayed when a campaign world is updated, imagine the feelings if their favorite campaign, the one for which they have a library of source material, is completely retconned, absolutely invalidating their library of "canon" materials.  I don't see how a game company could make any revenue off this aproach.  If a company has a property that has been a fan favorite, and bottom line, a good revenue producer, they are going to keep using it.  They'd be stupid not to.  If you don't like it, don't use it.  I just can't understand feeling betrayed or cheated by this. (Now if the product is meant to be a sourcebook, but doesn't have all of the info needed to be a complete sourcebook, and that info can only come from another product that you also have to buy, that's not cool.  But then again, that's another thread entirely.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" />)</blockquote>

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