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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 2639332" data-attributes="member: 2477">So, when WotC said "no need to buy 3.5, you can download the SRD for free." they were lying? It's really only for the publishers? In that case, someone might want to tell WotC, because they foolishly made it available to us peons too.I mainly game online, but even in person it's a pain to not have a resource seperate. Unless you're suggesting I photocopy it? That'd be Wrong.Kind of glossed over the part about me BUYING the book if the SRD was there? Possibly you're just replying to someone else and didn't seperate it from my quote.You've got companies doing 100% OGC material, companies which say that their sales are mostly in the 3 months after release. Companies that already have PDF's of the same products. It would be quite simple for core rules to be provided in a usable/ no frills format 3-6 months after the release. I'm also not advocating making EVERY product free, just as WotC doesn't add everything to the SRD.Has the COMPLETE D20 Modern SRD reduced sales of D20 Modern books? WotC does it fine.Other companies assume it'd be bad, so they don't do it.If the money is that tight, perhaps RPG's shouldn't be their sole business. But, I do appreciate the work they do (for the most part) and don't mind paying the exorbitant prices books get nowadays (again, for the most part).What I meant was, I expect support for a product, and I have a specific idea of what that support should/would/could be. COmpanies in response tell me they'd go bankrupt for supporting their products in such a manner. "We're too busy making new books to update <blah class> to 3.5", is not the answer I want to hear, and will affect my purchase of future products.As I mentioned above, I'm not saying I'll use a pirate copy, I'm saying that they're already out there, so decrying "giving it away for free" doesn't work for me, given someone has already provided a complete copy.</blockquote>

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