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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3813383" data-attributes="member: 2205">How was that ever different, though?  Even before the OGL, you could always just decide to play with your old stuff and buy up books that were out of print and use them instead.  Granted, before the internet, eBay and Amazon stores, it used to be harder, but we had all of those long before we had the OGL.I also disagree with the implication here that there's a really significant portion of the market that won't upgrade; I think they will, sales and revenue will spike because new core books sell like hotcakes compared to "yet another esoteric splatbook that we're putting out because we're not sure what else to put out anymore", etc.That said, I do agree that they'd be well advised to make 4e as backwards compatible (mechanically, at least) as they can, and I've kinda started to guess that that's not been a priority for them after all.  That's a real shame.  There's a good chance---a very good chance---that I personally will continue playing 3.5 (when I play D&D at all) maybe with a few house rules adopted from 4e.  But I don't have any illusions about what that means in terms of the market in general.  My tastes and preferences aren't indicative of the market as a whole by a long shot.</blockquote>