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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6041994" data-attributes="member: 996">Not at all, just not begrudging others playing 4e.  3.5 was continuing to get ongoing support in 3pps.  Those who declined to adopt 4e already had the game they wanted and were going to continue getting it for as long as they demanded it.  3pp publishing under the OGL was pretty easy to do if you didn't have to deliver huge revenue, and even fan publishing could have carried 3.5 for as long as one sufficiently motivated fan remained.  Being reasonable would have been to simply live and let live.  And why didn't it make enough money?  Well, one leak says it's because 'enough' was more than the hobby itself had ever pulled down in one year:  4e & Pathfinder /combined/ couldn't have met the goal.  But, it's also possible that the ceaseless campaign of open hatred and mis-information that raged on the internet for the entire run of 4e (and is still going, even though the last 4e book has been printed and the line is dead), might have cost WotC some sales.</blockquote>