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<blockquote data-quote="tleilaxu" data-source="post: 1000685" data-attributes="member: 1289"><p>this is a product driven by money</p><p></p><p>what is more, many of the changes were changed with commerce taking the lead over needed improvements to the game </p><p></p><p>this is according to monte</p><p></p><p>doesn't that make anyone else wary?</p><p></p><p>most people were happy with 3E. the changes that happened were great and a great improvement on 2e. sure, it wasn't perfect.</p><p></p><p>if this had been handled with more concern to gamers the .5 edition would be better. i'm not saying it sucks (i havn't seen it). i'm just saying that these indicators say to me that dnd is now driven by short term 3Q earnings, etc.</p><p></p><p>this is sad. its like computer games being released with tons of bugs in order to meet profit goals for the company. it sucks that this culture has permeated to the text publishing business as well. from what i've heard, what we're seeing is an edition being released prematurly. for all of you who are going to buy it and excited, good for you, have fun! i don't think you are stupid. don't accuse me or other 3.5 cynics of being silly for looking askance at all of these confidence deflating revelations.</p><p></p><p>we could have had better than this sort of calculating release</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tleilaxu, post: 1000685, member: 1289"] this is a product driven by money what is more, many of the changes were changed with commerce taking the lead over needed improvements to the game this is according to monte doesn't that make anyone else wary? most people were happy with 3E. the changes that happened were great and a great improvement on 2e. sure, it wasn't perfect. if this had been handled with more concern to gamers the .5 edition would be better. i'm not saying it sucks (i havn't seen it). i'm just saying that these indicators say to me that dnd is now driven by short term 3Q earnings, etc. this is sad. its like computer games being released with tons of bugs in order to meet profit goals for the company. it sucks that this culture has permeated to the text publishing business as well. from what i've heard, what we're seeing is an edition being released prematurly. for all of you who are going to buy it and excited, good for you, have fun! i don't think you are stupid. don't accuse me or other 3.5 cynics of being silly for looking askance at all of these confidence deflating revelations. we could have had better than this sort of calculating release [/QUOTE]
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