jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Second. Strawman? My responses may have been mistaken, but don't accuse me of duplicity, please.
Responding to an argument that I didn't make is, in fact, the definition of a strawman (well, one of them, anyhow).
This has provoked a passionate response because you aren't able to buy their product via PDF any longer?
Absolutely. As a loyal customer who purchased legal copies of multiple OOP TSR supplements that could not be easily obtained elsewhere, my reward was to have that option removed entirely, indefinitely, without any warning at all for something that other people did. How do you not understand that this may frustrate some people?
I submit that they'll soon rectify this situation, and you will be able to spend your money on WotC products digital again.
With all due respect — what do you base that prognosis? The WotC reps have clearly stated in this and similar threads that they are 'looking at' other options for electronic distribution but have stated nothing further than that at the current time.
Unless you're privy to as yet unreleased insider information, you're just crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. . . from a company that just made what is arguably one of the biggest PR missteps since The Dille Trust was running the show.
I call bullocks. The Adobe publishing will do just fine without Wizard's endorsement. You give them too much credit.
WotC is the single largest publisher of role-playing games. Their PDF catalog was larger than that currently offered by any other publisher, as well. Their decision to indefinitely yank that catalog without giving prior notice and declare on public forums that they aren't going back to PDFs will create fall out. It's not a matter of if but, rather, a matter of how much.