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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9555410" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I think you may have missed the point of what I wrote.Of course we all do &quot;bad stuff&quot; because we buy things from companies who do bad things (whether we know what those bad things are or not). But there's a big difference between buying a necessity and buying a luxury item. Imagine that the only way you could buy some of the foods you need is to buy from Nestle or one of the other companies they own. Either those foods are unavailable from other companies or are far too expensive. Yeah, OK, so you have to bite the bullet and buy from Nestle.That's different than if you're choosing to buy Nestle chocolate chips for your cookies instead of store brand or Ghirardelli or some other brand, because cookies aren't a necessity, no matter what my stomach and brain and certain other body parts try to tell me. They're a luxury item.Ditto WotC. They've made some bad or unethical decisions, and if that's not something that bothers you, the quality of what they've been putting out is very random, and if that doesn't bother you, 5.24 is a &quot;fully compatible&quot; half-edition instead of an actual new edition. So you can choose to spend $150 or so on somewhat updated versions of books you likely already own, plus however more it would cost to rent them or get a subscription via DDB, if that's your thing, or you can spend the same amount of money on books from other companies. I'm choosing the latter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 9555410, member: 6915329"] I think you may have missed the point of what I wrote. Of course we all do "bad stuff" because we buy things from companies who do bad things (whether we know what those bad things are or not). But there's a big difference between buying a necessity and buying a luxury item. Imagine that the only way you could buy some of the foods you [I]need[/I] is to buy from Nestle or one of the other companies they own. Either those foods are unavailable from other companies or are [I]far [/I]too expensive. Yeah, OK, so you have to bite the bullet and buy from Nestle. That's different than if you're [I]choosing[/I] to buy Nestle chocolate chips for your cookies instead of store brand or Ghirardelli or some other brand, because cookies aren't a necessity, no matter what my stomach and brain and certain other body parts try to tell me. They're a luxury item. Ditto WotC. They've made some bad or unethical decisions, and if that's not something that bothers you, the quality of what they've been putting out is very random, and if [I]that [/I]doesn't bother you, 5.24 is a "fully compatible" half-edition instead of an actual new edition. So you can choose to spend $150 or so on somewhat updated versions of books you likely already own, plus however more it would cost to rent them or get a subscription via DDB, if that's your thing, [I]or [/I]you can spend the same amount of money on books from other companies. I'm choosing the latter. [/QUOTE]

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