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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3934343" data-attributes="member: 2525">Well sure. Much like people can decide their tube-based TV is perfectly good and not buy a color flat screen, or their DVD player is perfectly good and not buy a Blu-Ray or HDDVD player.&nbsp; Or their Xbox is perfectly good and not buy an X-box 360.&nbsp; Or their 8 year old car is perfectly good, and not buy a newer one.&nbsp; Or anything in our society.Usually though, the truth is that people want to keep up with the evolution of products.&nbsp; Newer is not always better, but often it is.&nbsp; Experience does tend to refine things and improve them.&nbsp; A betamax is a perfectly good machine, but that doesn't mean the advances since then, from VCR to DVD to HD, were not improvements.&nbsp; An Atari 2600 is a perfectly good video game machine, but that doesn't mean the Wii or PS3 are not an improvement.&nbsp; And D&amp;D 3.5 is a perfectly good game, but that doesn't mean 4.0 won't be an improvement over it.&nbsp; It's not necessarily a merry-go-round to want to move with the evolution of products, any more so than anything else in our economy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 3934343, member: 2525"] Well sure. Much like people can decide their tube-based TV is perfectly good and not buy a color flat screen, or their DVD player is perfectly good and not buy a Blu-Ray or HDDVD player. Or their Xbox is perfectly good and not buy an X-box 360. Or their 8 year old car is perfectly good, and not buy a newer one. Or [b]anything[/b] in our society. Usually though, the truth is that people want to keep up with the evolution of products. Newer is not always better, but often it is. Experience does tend to refine things and improve them. A betamax is a perfectly good machine, but that doesn't mean the advances since then, from VCR to DVD to HD, were not improvements. An Atari 2600 is a perfectly good video game machine, but that doesn't mean the Wii or PS3 are not an improvement. And D&D 3.5 is a perfectly good game, but that doesn't mean 4.0 won't be an improvement over it. It's not necessarily a merry-go-round to want to move with the evolution of products, any more so than anything else in our economy. [/QUOTE]

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