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<blockquote data-quote="Xyxox" data-source="post: 4744980" data-attributes="member: 16542"><p>Here's my speculation.</p><p></p><p>What changed was the resurgance of people picking up older versions of the game. This competed directly with the current version. That coupled with piracy which has always been around spurred a strategy of pulling ALL PDFs and using piracy and the legitimate court case as the scapegoat. All older product gets pulled along with new product, thus ending the self competition and forcing price increases in the after market sales of older edition material.</p><p></p><p>There will never be an end to piracy, or even a slowing of it. The RIAA proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt, but piracy makes an oh so handy scapegoat to allow the pulling of the older edition material.</p><p></p><p>IF my speculation is correct, this is what will happen:</p><p></p><p>1) 4E Electronic Media will be made available via the DDI in the not too distant future, and will be announced as the next "feature" in DDI.</p><p></p><p>2) Promises will be made that older material will appear in DDI at some unspecified future date. This alleviates the nerd rage and is the "I'll never beat you again" phase of the spousal abuse syndrome.</p><p></p><p>3) We will never see the older material legally available in electronic media again.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I know I'm saying WotC is lying to us.</p><p></p><p>But I would say, "look at the pattern of the past two years starting with the promise that 4E was not forthcoming."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xyxox, post: 4744980, member: 16542"] Here's my speculation. What changed was the resurgance of people picking up older versions of the game. This competed directly with the current version. That coupled with piracy which has always been around spurred a strategy of pulling ALL PDFs and using piracy and the legitimate court case as the scapegoat. All older product gets pulled along with new product, thus ending the self competition and forcing price increases in the after market sales of older edition material. There will never be an end to piracy, or even a slowing of it. The RIAA proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt, but piracy makes an oh so handy scapegoat to allow the pulling of the older edition material. IF my speculation is correct, this is what will happen: 1) 4E Electronic Media will be made available via the DDI in the not too distant future, and will be announced as the next "feature" in DDI. 2) Promises will be made that older material will appear in DDI at some unspecified future date. This alleviates the nerd rage and is the "I'll never beat you again" phase of the spousal abuse syndrome. 3) We will never see the older material legally available in electronic media again. Yeah, I know I'm saying WotC is lying to us. But I would say, "look at the pattern of the past two years starting with the promise that 4E was not forthcoming." [/QUOTE]
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