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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 1535043" data-attributes="member: 1211">I dont think piracy really hurts the RPG industry. As many other people I think RPG publishers need the support they can get and if it is a game or supplement that I like I will buy it so I can contribute to the publisher being able to produce more of that game in the future. I suspect that a lot of role players work like that.I think the music industry as we know it today will go down because of P2P- sharing because of how easy mp3:s are to use, how they only market certain kinds of music and because of how bloated the companies have become. When you pay for a music CD you pay like 10 % of the price to the artist, 2 % for the physical CD and the rest to the record companies. In essence by buying that CD you are feeding the middle hand that thanks you by producing and marketing Britney Spears albums.The RPG industry doesnt have quite this problem. When you buy a RPG book you know that a) you got what you payed for (I consider 30 $ a reasonable price for a book of any cathegory) and b) you dont pay 90 % of the cost to the gaming store (or I hope not but I would be really surprised if that was the case; you dont see game store owners driving limos after all  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) that is the middle hand in this case.For me it's a case of whatever I feel cheated by the salesman or not. It doesnt feel wrong to DL music because I feel that the record companies are screwing me but it would feel very wrong to DL (and not buy afterwards) a product that is fairly priced by someone struggling to live on that product.Sometimes though I have DL:d products that I'm curious to see what they look like but would never buy. I read them through and then I delete them. But it's really like someone above said that it's like reading the product in a game store but in my apartment.</blockquote>

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