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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 3705184" data-attributes="member: 5445">I don't see why anyone should ever expect a trade-in program, I can understand why some would wish for it, but the only thing it would do is have some goodwill in a customer-base while the company folded.Seriously, it'd drive them right out of business.Now, I gotta admit, I'd love to see an edition stability like GURPS had (15 years between 3rd and 4th editions), but 8 years between 3e and 4e isn't too bad, even 3.5  being 5 years ago ain't too bad. It is annoying, though, but it could be worse.An example:Vampire the Masquerade went from 1st editon in 1991, to 2nd edition in 1992, to 3rd/Revised Edition in 1998, and then WoD 2.0 (4th) Edition in 2004.Now after the initial, all be it needed growing pains of the first two editions, they settled into a normal update pattern.Another Example:Shadowrun's 1st Edition was in 1989, 2nd Edition in 1992, 3rd in 1998, and 4th in 2005, which is a pretty rapid succession of editions, but the stride lengthened over time.Now while it is not something any customer likes to hear, no one HAS to buy the update and it is not needed if people just continue in their current campaigns. No one is gonna take the 3.5 books from us, just as they did not take the 3e books, or 2e, or 1e, or oD&D, we just won't get any new books from WotC after they finish the lines they've got in the chute.Maybe some companies will stay focused on 3.5 and only use it, who knows, but it is not like we HAVE to update to 4e.I'm going to, mainly because I wanna keep my options open for freelance work and getting my foot in the door, but that's my choice, no one is forcing me to do it.While in thought and on paper a trade-in policy looks cool, it'd only kill whatever company did it since there is a lot more money involved in it for a printed medium than say an OS CD.It is just insanely cost prohibative.</blockquote>

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