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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5690132" data-attributes="member: 22424">There's nothing stopping WotC from going back to 3.5e as such. However...- By the time 4e was released, the product line for 3.5e was really played out. The last few products seemed really tired, sales were dropping, and there really didn't seem to be much that they could sell... in large numbers anyway.- A lot of 4e fans are fans precisely because of the vast differences with 3.5e. Going back would quickly and effectively alienate those fans.- A lot of the 3.5e fans have moved over to Pathfinder, and won't be easily won back. It's not impossible, but bear in mind that WotC need a lot of sales to make something worth their while.And I don't agree that WotC could support multiple editions concurrently. The big problem here is that that leads to them competing with themselves, so instead of having one product that sells enough copies, they have two that are both failures. And my gut feeling is that D&D sales (both 4e and late 3.5e) are just barely enough to support the line, and no more. This would certainly explain the vastly reduced release schedule of late - books that were just barely doing well enough are now more expensive and so not worth doing, while the DDI has heavily canibalised sales of the 'crunch' books that used to be the bigger sellers.Basically, I'm pretty sure moving back to 3.5e would mean the end of 4e, and I think that would be a losing proposition. (Though I'm not at all convinced 5e would be a good idea either, nor indeed continuing with 4e. D&D-RPG may just be too small for a company the size of WotC/Hasbro to bother with.)</blockquote>

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