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<blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5400432" data-attributes="member: 23935">I think part of the reason may be the media.In WoW, all the subscribers are players who are there to experience effectively a theme park.&nbsp; Not a passive audience, biut an audience that has little or no impact on the world around them.&nbsp; When the cataclysm happens, the players lose further access to the previous experience, but gain access to the new experience.In FR, a lot of the audience are there to use the presented information as a base to be built on.&nbsp; The audience extends the material even if it is just through their own memories and campaign histories.&nbsp; When the cataclysm happens, the palyers are presented a choice: shift and adapt losing the previous extensions, or abandon the current version and stick with the old.&nbsp; If they move to the new, there is a strong risk that personal extensions are rendered irrelelvant or need to be rebuilt out of whole cloth (the areas may have been obliterated making previous campaign choices irelevant; the canon may specifically call out events that were dealt with differently in the campaign history, etc.).&nbsp; If they stay with the old, they lose the option of using future updates.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nagol, post: 5400432, member: 23935"] I think part of the reason may be the media. In WoW, all the subscribers are players who are there to experience effectively a theme park. Not a passive audience, biut an audience that has little or no impact on the world around them. When the cataclysm happens, the players lose further access to the previous experience, but gain access to the new experience. In FR, a lot of the audience are there to use the presented information as a base to be built on. The audience extends the material even if it is just through their own memories and campaign histories. When the cataclysm happens, the palyers are presented a choice: shift and adapt losing the previous extensions, or abandon the current version and stick with the old. If they move to the new, there is a strong risk that personal extensions are rendered irrelelvant or need to be rebuilt out of whole cloth (the areas may have been obliterated making previous campaign choices irelevant; the canon may specifically call out events that were dealt with differently in the campaign history, etc.). If they stay with the old, they lose the option of using future updates. [/QUOTE]

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