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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanegrundar" data-source="post: 1959662" data-attributes="member: 3913">Sure it was unpopular, until people realized that it wasn't a whole new edition, just a revision with corrected errata (and some new errata to deal with).  If 4E happens the way you predict, the backlash would be greater.  You're talking about a system that won't be as backwards compatiable with 3.5.  That's just too much too soon for many players.  Sure, it will sell just becasue it's D&D, but I'd wager that it won't sell as well as 3.0 did.  After all, 3.5 was a success, but it still didn't sell as well as the 3.0 books.  I think adding in more of a dependence on minis wouldn't be the way to go either.  I really hope that WotC doesn't go this route.  Not everyone that buys the minis roleplay (at a couple of the gaming shops I frequent, there are lots of minis buyers that only play the skirmish game).  It won't bother me that much if they go that route, but they will faction the fanbase even further.  Look at it this way, WotC is going down the same route that TSR was going down.  They are breaking up the fanbase too much.  Now we have 3.0, 3.5 players, D&D Minis players, and D20 Modern players.  Sure there's a lot of cross-buying (I'm evident of that), but not everyone that plays one plays the others.  That's not even taking into account the groups that only play specific D20 or OGL games like Gamma World, Everquest, Spycraft, Stargate, etc...  If 4E is released too soon, it won't sell as well as 3.0 or 3.5.  They are releasing too many changes too quickly to keep the player base for the newest game as big as the one before.  Of course, this is all my opinion and nothing more!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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