Honestly, i think WotC are trying to be Blizzard. i play WOW as well as D&D, and i'm glad i'm not a DM now that 4e is out. my boyfriend is the DM (he doesn't play faves, he's actually harder on me lol). i bought him the new DMG, and he said he can't even find druids listed, and 2 chars in our campaign are druids. as far as he is concerned, we won't be adapting to 4e for a while, if ever really. WotC are trying to make more money by trying to force players into buying useless materials, like the old pen-and-paper way of doing it isn't good anymore because they're not making money off of it. it seems like they are trying to be Blizz because now rogues can vanish on an attack?! that doesn't seem fair to some classes (and in WOW it's how rogues kill a warlock like nothing
).
i think WotC really messed this one up big time.