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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 4753506" data-attributes="member: 10177">Its simple. For years WOTC has been portraying themselves as being such a HUGE company that they had a customer base 6 million strong, they even say as much in the court documents posted. However, when you do the numbers, hundreds fo thousand core books sold come no where close to supporting a market 6 million strong, so WOTC has been lying about how big an industry they are.Plus they claim that 4E is out selling 3E, well according to Dancey and several newspaper type articles I have seen linked to, the 3E PH sold over one million copies in the first year alone. Ryan even says the 3E PH sold 300,000 copies in the first 30 days. So yet another lie WOTC has been caught in, either now, or back in the 3E days, because it was their news releases cited in the articles I read today.So yes, I am calling WOTC a lying company. Why? Because they are.Plus look at the pirating thing. They claim it was this huge thing that was devastating their bottom line, yet in the court cases I read they site 1,000 downloads of one book. 1,000. That is a pittance compared to how many copies of the print PH2 they sold, yet they talk/claim that it was huge numbers that were devastating to their sales.1,000 is not devastating. Even assume 1,000 as an average for each of the 8 pirates, 8,000 is not a huge number. I know physical stores that wish they had only 10% theft to deal with, and WOTC cannot prove that those 1,000 DL's resulted in lost sales. To do so they have to find all those people who did the illegal DL's and find out if the bought print copies or not. I doubt they can do that, let alone are willing to do it.So I think they shut down PDF sales as a cheap and easy and provable way to show how the pirating caused them financial damage, because their stated reasons are complete baloney. So yes, I don't consider WOTC to have any integrity what so ever.</blockquote>

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