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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 4753650" data-attributes="member: 3987">No it's more a case they are causal gamers, that really don't spend anything on the hobby, other than travel costs to get to the group. They have other interests that they do spend money on. I'm pretty sure they don't watch pirated movies for example. If illegal PDFs were not available, they would borrow books, which is actually where my DMG and MM are at the moment. We share DVDs within the group as well. If PDFs were not available then rather than preparing characters before the game, we would just end up preparing them all in the first session, like we use to do before the internet took off. It wouldn't change the buying habits of those members of the group significantly, they didn't buy before PDFs were readily available. It would probably impact the buying habits of the others (group 1) however we would buy less books. There isn't a FLGS any more and even if there was most of us don't have the free time to browse in bookshops like we did when we were students. Without the marketing and browsing that illegal pdfs provide I think our awareness of products an willingness to spend cash on an unseen product would mean our purchasing would trickle off to near zero.I think there is only one person in our group that actively downloads things (be it films, books, etc.) from torrents. Heck one of our group is still on dial up!!! Arrrgh! I know that no one in our group was particularly interested in PHB2 until we got access to the PDF, and because of that they now have four sales (assuming Amazon ever deliver).True. But it did use to exist, or at least copying books consisted of photocopying the thing which wasn't as easy, cheap or accessible. In those days the people in my group that didn't buy books still didn't buy books they just borrowed them at the table from those that did. Our buying patterns haven't changed due to piracy.</blockquote>

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