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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9220633" data-attributes="member: 59816">I don't think we are.I just think you're partly wrong. I mean, yes, I agree with you that they want people to adopt the new books. But the MAIN thing they want is for everyone to stick with their brand (Hint: Keep Buying). So they're &quot;happy&quot; if you keep using your 2014 books, but keep buying new Adventures. They don't ultimately care WHAT you buy, as long as you keep buying. Your &quot;good will&quot; is more important than your purchasing of the 3 new core books. They WANT you to want those too, of course!It's just simpler than that - they need it to be functionally backwards compatible so that the old Adventure books (that they plan to keep in print) still work with the new rules. That's the whole thing - they have 20+ books that they regularly sell. If they make a fully new edition, the sales of those fall off a cliff and they have to start &quot;from scratch&quot;. It's not more complicated than that.I don't disagree with you.I mean, why would anyone buy the new books if they were objectively worse? (As &quot;objective&quot; as anything can be, at least). No, we ALL benefit (D&amp;D players and WotC both) if the new books are BETTER than the old ones. Otherwise it's not worth making them.Again, you seem to think that you see this more clearly than others do. I don't think that's the case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 9220633, member: 59816"] I don't think we are. I just think you're partly wrong. I mean, yes, I agree with you that they want people to adopt the new books. But the MAIN thing they want is for everyone to stick with their brand (Hint: Keep Buying). So they're "happy" if you keep using your 2014 books, but keep buying new Adventures. They don't ultimately care WHAT you buy, as long as you keep buying. Your "good will" is more important than your purchasing of the 3 new core books. They WANT you to want those too, of course! It's just simpler than that - they [I]need[/I] it to be functionally backwards compatible so that the old Adventure books (that they plan to keep in print) still work with the new rules. That's the whole thing - they have 20+ books that they regularly sell. If they make a fully new edition, the sales of those fall off a cliff and they have to start "from scratch". It's not more complicated than that. I don't disagree with you. I mean, why would anyone buy the new books if they were objectively worse? (As "objective" as anything can be, at least). No, we ALL benefit (D&D players and WotC both) if the new books are BETTER than the old ones. Otherwise it's not worth making them. Again, you seem to think that you see this more clearly than others do. I don't think that's the case. [/QUOTE]

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