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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4745068" data-attributes="member: 40961">I don't particularly care.  My thoughts, in no particular order. 1. I don't think this will help piracy. 2. The people claiming that this represents some contractual breach are almost certainly wrong, and I've pointed that out politely. 3. The people claiming that this represents WotC doing something legally wrong to them, due to the downloads they feel they were promised by third party vendors, are also almost certainly wrong.  I've also explained that one politely. 4. Beyond that, the only fun to be had in those threads is to tweak the trolls and the conspiracy nuts.  I've refrained from doing so, even though its hugely entertaining and even though I don't think its morally wrong to chuckle at someone for being a paranoid conspiracy nut over a game, and even though I think that the rantings of paranoid conspiracy nuts are often a form of trolling.  For the record: there's no reason to believe that this is because WotC fears a renaissance of older games, because that "renaissance" almost certainly pales in comparison to the sales of mass market games.  There's no reason to believe that this is because of a failure of recent products, because available metrics suggest recent products have been successful.  WotC doesn't owe you any money.  WotC isn't doing this to inflate damages in a lawsuit against eight individual gamers (though they may mention it in the lawsuit since its part of the events surrounding the piracy issue), because that's stupid and their damages under the law probably already exceed what those eight guys can pay.  There's probably more, but that's all that comes to mind at the moment. 5. Its certainly an odd business environment where Paizo is simultaneously WotC's competitor, and their contracted business partner, and a junior member of a field of colleagues.  It makes for strange ironies, like Paizo's ability to take shots at WotC because they're competitors, the fact that they both work together anyways, and the way that WotC really can't take shots at Paizo.  I don't think there's anything wrong or unfair about this, its just how it is.  But its an odd social reality.</blockquote>

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