Just saw a twitter feed with this link to the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/video-games/dungeons-dragons-remake- uses-players-input.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3
Looks to me like WotC is trying to catch the same lightning in a bottle Paizo pulled off with an open playtest of early versions of the 5e ruleset. At this point I wonder if it will work - seems like a lot of the folks who would have been interested in rolling up their sleeves and helping with a new edition did just that with Pathfinder.
It also strikes me as a desperation move that Wizards is already talking about a full edition revamp this soon after the release of 4e.
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I think it's too early for a new edition of D&D. I also think it's inevitable - there was a vocal segment of fandom from the word go that wanted to burn WotC at the stake for daring to alter D&D even a little, and frankly, nobody likes to be the bad guy.
When did I stop enjoying 4th Edition? For me it was around the time Essentials came out, though the good material ended after PHB2. PHB3 was a mistake and Heroes of Shadow (the degenerate remnants of PHB4) was a joke.
