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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 5815651" data-attributes="member: 31646">I think they are probably targeting the people who left D&D for pathfinder or stuck with 3X.  Theres plenty of people who will just buy and play whatever has D&D on the cover. Those people are now playing 4e. They arent the only ones playing it but they definitely ARE playing it. Those people will buy and play 5e too, because its what they do. A lot of the other 4e audience is people who were open minded to addition changes instead of invested in something older. A fair amount of those people are STILL open minded and as long as 5e doesnt completely suck they will probably buy that too. All in all i dont see very many 4e players sticking with it after its no longer supported so their dollars are a virtual lock. However if their dollars were enough.... well we wouldnt be talking about a 5e would we? People who play warhammer, storyteller or savage worlds or something along those lines prefer a system too different to baseling D&D expectations to reasonably expect to get many of them without alienating existing customers. So they are out as a target audience. Attracting totally new players is good but they went that way before and it bit them in the butt. New players dont usually buy a lot of books. they may play the game but they dont spend a ton of money on it until the hobby really gets in their blood. So targeting them is good but a long term proposition. They cant really be the focus either. People still playing 1e or 2e. They arent changing. WoTC should accept it and move on. Dont even try. All thats really left as a good target is 3X lovers. So that has to be their  focus.</blockquote>

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