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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theoremtank" data-source="post: 932219" data-attributes="member: 6099">More thoughts on the the eTools patch and the 3.5 revision...I completely agree that CodeMonkey should make money for their hard work.  But let me state what I see as a couple of facts and my issue with the situation.Facts:-Wizards of the Coast released eTools approximatley one year ago.-eTools was unfinished but nonetheless they sold it.-eTools lacked accuracy in its data (bugs far beyond a standard comercial software release) and therefore was unusable to many folks.-eTools was never fixed and brought to an acceptable level of data correctness (few consider the first beta patch a reasonable fix).-One year later we are finally expecting a patch which may bring this software into a usable state.-Problem now is that the 3.0 data set is outdated and we are to be charged by CodeMonkey to upgrade to 3.5.Resolution....CodeMonkey should make money for their work on the 3.5 data set, but the eTools consumer should not be paying for it, Wizards of the Coast should.  The financial burden needs to fall upon Wizards as compensation for selling their consumers unfinished software.  This coming patch by CodeMonkey will be for most of us, the first official release of eTools.  Thus it should contain the 3.5 data set at no cost to the consumer that already paid for a finished product.  Wizards has not yet paid finacially for selling the eTools lemon to their loyal customer base.I do however feel that the consumer should pay CodeMonkey for the other data sets they make available (but that is another post).</blockquote>

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