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Shadowrun on Roll20: Which edition is played the most?

I was looking at the Bundle of Holding and saw that Shadowrun 4e was on sale for the next couple of days.  While the price is pretty good, I know that 5e is out and figure I probably shouldn't buy an old system if no one is playing it.  I checked the Orr report but it seems to lump all of Shadowrun together.  Without weighing in on the benefits of one system over the other from a rules perspective, does anyone have a sense of how much 4e gets played on here (aka if I bought it, would there be games to get in on)?
Oh yeah, I'm sure you'd be able to find a game, although I think SR5 is the most in-demand .
Oh, so you think there are people out there looking g for 4e players despite there being a lot of 5e?
From my (limited) observations, SR4E isn't extremely in-demand and LFG listings do seem relatively few and far between. However, this means that LFG listings won't fill up nearly as fast as they might with other systems, such as SR5. You might do well to make use of some other resources to assist in finding a group (e.g. posting in /r/lfg in addition to the LFG forum, maybe taking a proactive stance with networking via the player directory or posters in the aforementioned locations).
Silvyre said:  LFG listings do seem relatively few and far between.  It also helps that there isn't a character sheet for 4th edition.  I can only find the 5th edition sheet here on Roll20. Typically, the newest edition (of whatever) is what everyone plays.  Rightly or wrongly, a new edition implies all/some of the issues with the previous edition was fixed. People buy the newest edition, and then play it, if for no other reason than to justify the spending money on it.  And then, it seems like since everyone is playing it...
Thanks for responding. I appreciate that any answers have to be based on personal observations. I didn't realize the character sheet issue at all.