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<blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 5997366" data-attributes="member: 63245">Wizards will have 5 editions of D&amp;D soon. Why don't they just support them all? The biggest slap to the face for consumers is investing in all of these books then they switch to a new edition. I understand that they wont bust in your house and take your stuff and you can play all the old systems, but it sucks that the fans never get any official support anymore. It seems like they -want- to do that by releasing the old books , and when the virtual table was up it seemed to support the other systems. Why dont they just DO it with D&amp;D insider? I get the feeling that they simply can't commit to an edition before thinking of a new way of doing things. D&amp;D essentials was supposed to be their evergreen system. It was going to be the entry point and retailers were supposed to always have them on the shelves. That didnt last very long at all. I personally think essentials was great. Hell, I think all the systems are great. I dont think rebuying the same stuff in a slightly different format is great. If you remember when 4th edition came out they talked about how they were fixing the mistakes of 3rd edition and all of that, and it parallels this D&amp;D next. I understand they WANT to unite the fanbase, but it's just not going to happen. You can't please everyone, you just cant. People will gripe about the new system and within 5 years or so they will be thinking of D&amp;D 6th edition, or D&amp;D forever, D&amp;D infinity, or whatever they call it. It'll be the same story wanting to fix the problems of Next... then rinse and repeat.Surely I can't be the only person that feels this way?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Evenglare, post: 5997366, member: 63245"] Wizards will have 5 editions of D&D soon. Why don't they just support them all? The biggest slap to the face for consumers is investing in all of these books then they switch to a new edition. I understand that they wont bust in your house and take your stuff and you can play all the old systems, but it sucks that the fans never get any official support anymore. It seems like they -want- to do that by releasing the old books , and when the virtual table was up it seemed to support the other systems. Why dont they just DO it with D&D insider? I get the feeling that they simply can't commit to an edition before thinking of a new way of doing things. D&D essentials was supposed to be their evergreen system. It was going to be the entry point and retailers were supposed to always have them on the shelves. That didnt last very long at all. I personally think essentials was great. Hell, I think all the systems are great. I dont think rebuying the same stuff in a slightly different format is great. If you remember when 4th edition came out they talked about how they were fixing the mistakes of 3rd edition and all of that, and it parallels this D&D next. I understand they WANT to unite the fanbase, but it's just not going to happen. You can't please everyone, you just cant. People will gripe about the new system and within 5 years or so they will be thinking of D&D 6th edition, or D&D forever, D&D infinity, or whatever they call it. It'll be the same story wanting to fix the problems of Next... then rinse and repeat. Surely I can't be the only person that feels this way? [/QUOTE]

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