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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5706369" data-attributes="member: 54877">If 5E launch substantially removes parts of 4E from DDI, it will be due to incompetence, not policy.&nbsp; For example, there may very well be certain aspects of 4E hard-coded into DDI, when they should not be.&nbsp; If these things happen to change for 5E, what the developer ought to do is recognize the problem, and change the hard-coding into something more flexible.&nbsp;I think what you'll get on at least a few occasions is that developer will be behind on an impossible schedule, and will thus simply change to the new model.&nbsp; This will break something in 4E that will tick some people off.&nbsp;We'll end up with a 4E in the 5E DDI that is more or less the same, but with some odd quirks.&nbsp; Opinions on whether or not those quirks make continuing with DDI viable will vary.&nbsp; People dropping out will create a marketing case for not supporting the ones that remain.&nbsp; If this is to be headed off, it has to be headed off from the beginning by management (and I don't mean Mearls, either).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5706369, member: 54877"] If 5E launch substantially removes parts of 4E from DDI, it will be due to incompetence, not policy. For example, there may very well be certain aspects of 4E hard-coded into DDI, when they should not be. If these things happen to change for 5E, what the developer ought to do is recognize the problem, and change the hard-coding into something more flexible. I think what you'll get on at least a few occasions is that developer will be behind on an impossible schedule, and will thus simply change to the new model. This will break something in 4E that will tick some people off. We'll end up with a 4E in the 5E DDI that is more or less the same, but with some odd quirks. Opinions on whether or not those quirks make continuing with DDI viable will vary. People dropping out will create a marketing case for not supporting the ones that remain. If this is to be headed off, it has to be headed off from the beginning by management (and I don't mean Mearls, either). [/QUOTE]

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