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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barak" data-source="post: 1004257" data-attributes="member: 3028">Ok.  I see a lot of people, mostly those "pro-3.5", saying "well yes the 3.5 changes were motivated by money.  Why is that a bad thing?"Here is -my- answer to that, for what it's worth.If we remember, back when the "revision books" were announced, we were told that they would be 100% compatible with existing products, with no-or-few conversion needed.  And yet, the more we learned about the changes made, the more we realized that this wasn't true.  Let's face it, -any- 3.0 character will have to be heavily modified to be able to play in a 3.5 game.  While that may not be so bad, it makes previous products, especially modules, in need of even more heavy modifications as well.  Which, to me, is a Bad Thing.  Now, how does this tie-in to the motive for all the changes being money?  Well, if the changes were "light" enough to be 100% compatible (modifications to Harm/haste/etc., some modifications to spell durations, etc.), a lot less people would actually buy the books.  If the modifications were that simple, a read of the SRD, or even a list of the changes on a Message Board such as this one would have been enough for an owner of the previous books to update.  As it stands, however, it is easier, cheaper, less time-consuming to buy the books.  And if one wants to be able to use future products, ones written -for- 3.5, one needs to change to 3.5, since it isn't fully compatible.  Which means that if one wants to keep current, one needs to buy the new books (monetary consideration), as opposed to if it had been the revision promised.  And since I, for one, liked 3.0 just fine, while admitting that -some- small changes were needed, the monetary considerations on WotC's part leads to many changes with which I don't agree, and that I'd have to modify.  But if I do, I'll also have to modify every single product I buy in the future.</blockquote>

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