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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3718533" data-attributes="member: 3649">I have no doubt that 5E and even 6E plans are in someone's folders and some small amount of that is being worked on even as we speak. This is how the design process works, and it is how a company works.Again, it comes back to how real businesses work. You can't produce, say, three 4E books in January and then have nothing on your slate of projects until October. Some people - who apparently have no idea how the real world works - have even said 'Produce three 4E books and then nothing else after that'. Well, if you did that, then there certainly would be nothing after that because the business would fold. A business that depends on boom and bust curves like that doesn't last very long because sooner or later what you thought was going to be a boom turns out not to be, and that's when layoffs and other badness happens.The design process works in a similar way, whether you're designing a game or a software package. You think that one day at Microsoft that Bill sends around a memo saying 'OK, today we start work on Windows 2010'? No, he doesn't. There are teams working on features and technologies years into the future, stuff that won't see daylight for 10 years or more, and some that never will because they prove untenable. At some point enough changes and modifications and new discoveries accumulate to the point that you can roll out a new product that incorporates changes that have taken place, addresses past problems, and also provides a different enough experience for the user that they don't feel like you've gipped them.</blockquote>

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