Forum:What happened to FR?

WotC made a bad move with 4E. At least half of the 3E gamers did not like the 4E changes, so WotC lost a lot of customers there. Then they made very, very bad changes to the Realms. And again, about half of the Realms fans did not like the changes there. So, WotC lost a huge chunk of their customers with the them two actions. And worse, they lost a huge chunk of their adult customers, the ones with money(who can afford to spend $100 a month on D&D books). And then on top of all that you have the Rescission.

So the end result has been very little published about the Realms from the start of 4E. Even the couple of online articles were very light. They still put out the novels, but they are all 4E now too.

I doubt that 5E/D&D Next will do anything much for the Realms. After all, they said the same thing about 4E. (Bloodtide 18:52, April 30, 2012 (UTC))