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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CardinalXimenes" data-source="post: 4771806" data-attributes="member: 58259">Yet here we are, approximately eight days after release, and the pirates still have not released the full book to casual pirating sites.WotC has decided that there is simply no money whatsoever in PDFs, and that any degree of cash they are making off of them at any point in a product's lifespan is completely offset by the negative consequences of trivial piracy or older-edition buy in. The last thing they want is for some newbie to roll up to the WotC PDF store and see the only game in stock as 3.5 or earlier.If you ask your LGS' proprietor what he thinks about the recent rash of "PDFs Cheap!" sales, you might get a different viewpoint. Elsewhere, one proprietor said that he knew perfectly well that he'd lost sales to PDFs, with one customer even going so far as to openly admit that he was just browsing the shop and only intended to buy PDFs online. I think one of the major reasons that WotC never gave a price cut on PDFs in their shop was due to a reluctance to stick the shiv any deeper into the LGS. They clearly believe that the LGS is a meaningful route for sucking new players into D&D, particularly since so many LGSes these days are forced to appeal to more than strict RPG hobbyists in order to pay rent.</blockquote>