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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mkb152" data-source="post: 4753138" data-attributes="member: 17588">Sigh...While I am not happy about not being able to buy older edition PDFs at the moment, I understand where WOTC is coming from on this.  I suppose I'll have to spend more money on eBay for this stuff.  The good news is I had already downloaded or bought a hard copy of most of the GH / Planescape stuff (which is what I most wanted).That being said, knowing very little information about this, I could have drafted a more informative interview and/or press release.  In fact, this is about what I expected.  The 10 to 1 is the only information I or anyone else couldn't have predicted.I am not a WOTC basher, and I support their products (but I support them less than Paizo's).  But even WOTC fanboys are starting to wake up to the fact that their PR is horrible.  Seriously, it would be funny, but it's too bad to be funny.  They have pretty much made every big mistake in the book in the past 2 years; in fact, they have created a few new ones.  You think that maybe they would have learned something from the 3E character creator debacle, but maybe noone is left from that era.It's like someone in marketing read Wikinomics and thought "We NEED to enter the digital age or die" but didn't do the necessary homework on how to do it right.  And you're telling me that NOW they realize that PDFs are pirated?  Are they stuck in some 1998 time warp?  I'll believe that their will be newly distributed digital content once my WOTC virtual tabletop game has been going strong for a few years.Don't get me wrong, I think their products (minus the USELESS character sheets) are pretty good.  But seriously, hire someone to teach you PR, please...</blockquote>

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