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<blockquote data-quote="Brax" data-source="post: 5367149" data-attributes="member: 29608">Thanks for speaking up, and I'm glad that DDI is meeting your needs.&nbsp; I can really only speak for myself here, obviously.&nbsp; I also love what WotC has done with the latest edition game wise, just not on the DDI end (and only more so recently).&nbsp; I am also looking forward to the new unreleased tools, but am not willing to pay them for those future tools before they are out and useful to me, that's all.&nbsp; I wanted them to know why specifically and what they can do to get more of my money.&nbsp; Hopefully, I was being reasonable and coherent.As far as piracy goes, I really don't care what other people / deadbeats are doing.&nbsp; I want to buy PDFs at a reasonable additional cost to the hardback books.&nbsp; I am willing to pay them for it, and they can choose to take my money or get nothing from me.As you said, stopping the PDF sales has not slowed down piracy; all it means is a legitimate customer (me) can't get what he wants anymore.&nbsp; I think the move was also about preventing some stores from ripping off WotC by selling download tokens multiple times, and other shenanigans and not (or not just) piracy.The creative minds at WotC do deserve to get paid, and I want to do that.&nbsp; The answer is to sell me the products I want rather than try to prevent imaginary 'lost sales' (meaning no pirate will buy that stuff anyways, so if they nab it, you weren't going to make that money).&nbsp; The only way to stop piracy is to make a better product:&nbsp; more features, like an on-line account *cough*DDI*cough* that records your purchases for additional downloading later if something happens to your original copy.&nbsp; Possibly an updated copy with errata included automatically every time there is a change.&nbsp; Make it more convenient than piracy and more people will want it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brax, post: 5367149, member: 29608"] Thanks for speaking up, and I'm glad that DDI is meeting your needs. I can really only speak for myself here, obviously. I also love what WotC has done with the latest edition game wise, just not on the DDI end (and only more so recently). I am also looking forward to the new unreleased tools, but am not willing to pay them for those future tools before they are out and useful to me, that's all. I wanted them to know why specifically and what they can do to get more of my money. Hopefully, I was being reasonable and coherent. As far as piracy goes, I really don't care what other people / deadbeats are doing. I want to [I]buy[/I] PDFs at a reasonable additional cost to the hardback books. I am willing to pay them for it, and they can choose to take my money or get nothing from me. As you said, stopping the PDF sales has not slowed down piracy; all it means is a legitimate customer (me) can't get what he wants anymore. I think the move was also about preventing some stores from ripping off WotC by selling download tokens multiple times, and other shenanigans and not (or not just) piracy. The creative minds at WotC [I]do[/I] deserve to get paid, and I want to do that. The answer is to sell me the products I want rather than try to prevent imaginary 'lost sales' (meaning no pirate will buy that stuff anyways, so if they nab it, you weren't going to make that money). The only way to stop piracy is to make a better product: more features, like an on-line account *cough*DDI*cough* that records your purchases for additional downloading later if something happens to your original copy. Possibly an updated copy with errata included automatically every time there is a change. Make it more convenient than piracy and more people will want it. [/QUOTE]

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