Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
I played 2nd ed back in the early 90's and thoroughly enjoyed it. Our group broke up and that was the end of my roleplaying, until 4E came out. 4E brought me back into the fold and it's been great.
I didn't like essentials and I'm not looking forward to 5E but hey whatever. They're in the business to make money. There's no correct edition, you play what you like.
No doubt. Myself, I've played using at least half a dozen different systems since the beginning of this year alone. None of them happened to be 3.XE/4.XE/PF, but if I expand that statement to include the last year, all of those were also included as well as a handful of others. For me, I game a great deal and have time to do so, so buying into a single system isn't going to happen. If 5E trips my trigger, it will be added to a stable of systems that I play. I think WotC needs to hear from those of us who aren't single system users and also needs to hear from those who are already being turned off by what little we have to go on. I not only believe they need to hear it, I think they want to hear it. Allowing that feedback to be blocked out even at this juncture isn't helping WotC make a better game for all of us, so I'm hoping that doesn't become the groupthink this time around.