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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3200207" data-attributes="member: 2067">No. My argument is that, if they stop releasing many of these updates for free, WotC are being cheap bastards and using sales techniques that drug pushers uses as they are rescinding their community goodwill.The counter-argument, AFAICT, is that giving us less stuff for more money is either inevitable, or that it represents some sort of kind act of unwarranted compassion on WotC's part, and thus they're not being cheap bastards, just honest businessmen trying to make a little money off of some kids having fun with their hard work.Sure, just as soon as you take a course in economic-social theory. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Then I will show you any reciept, and you will see that my $30 went to pay for everything from Hasbro's new line of GI Joes to WotC's website to the paycheck of that kid who rung me up to the loggers chopping down trees to make the paper. No. Nothing WotC gives me is a privelege. Everything they give me, I (and everyone else buying their stuff) have paid for. Those special edition DVD's are paid for by eveyone who went to see the studio's new big release, not just by the people shelling out $5 more at the register. WotC never gave this stuff away out of the goodness in their own hearts. I don't think Mearls was doing these columns when he *wasn't*  being paid for them. So when he was paid, his money came from Hasbro. Hasbro's money comes from the people who buy Hasbro's stuff and the people who invest in Hasbro's stock. In other words, from us. From me. From you. From your cousin's kid who just baught a Pokemon deck, to the family who just purchased the new Transformer's toys for their kid for Christmas, we've already paid for this.</blockquote>

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