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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 7687620" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Okay, that is all good and fine. But, I'll tell you think... WotC's boards were getting dead before they shut them down, there are less posts around here now than when the edition first launched (and notice most of them are about the SCAG and about half of them are negative), I am seeing less discussion and talk about the edition on the net, video channels on YouTube with people excitedly talking about the possibilities have fallen silent, I am seeing less and less people trying to start up online campaigns as the months roll on and I'm going to guess you probably had more than 5 DMs and were turning away a lot more players 6 months ago.And projecting forward, go two more years into the future with the company only doing 2 releases per year. For precisely how long do you think people are going to remain excited or engaged with nothing new to sink their teeth into? For those who can't even play what they want to because their favorite race was never updated or their favorite class just isn't in the game or is horrendously busted and they are told to sit on their hands and maybe WotC will get around to releasing it 5 years from now.... how much longer before they decide its just not worth it and give up on the whole pen and paper model all together?You'll soon enough find yourself down to 4 DMs and then 3.... and while you will still no doubt be turning away more players than you have spaces, the total number will decline (particularly when they realize they will never get to be in the only 15 available slots) and you'll start begging people to come and DM and offering them all sorts of rewards only to find that while people are fine with showing up and lazily tossing some dice around and moving some minis on some maps, they just simply aren't into it enough to actually put that much effort into it.Oh! But your 55-year old buddy who played 1st edition showed up once or twice to your game store, so I guess all other evidence in the world be damned!.... I mean, really, what are you even getting at? People who played the game heavily 20 years ago are not exactly a market worth capturing if you want the game to have any lasting value. D&D 5E being a game that people play off-nights between Gin Rummy, Bingo and Shuffleboard is not exactly a hot selling point for the game.</blockquote>

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