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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4749958" data-attributes="member: 14159">Here's how it affects my enjoyment of the game. . .I don't play 4e, I don't like 4e, and my gaming group has thoroughly and utterly rejected 4e.  We play 3.5, and we still use "fluff" from editions even older than that (2e has some magnificent setting materials, even if the rules are a little clunky).  The only way WotC got any money from me was the few times I bought one of those older-edition .pdf's because I couldn't find a hardcopy of an older supplement I wanted through other secondary channels (used bookstores, eBay ect.).  I strongly prefer hardcopy to .pdf (although that's what a printer is for), but at least WotC made some tiny effort to make things available for those of us who prefer older editions.What this means to me is that it makes it a little harder for me to get some old books I might want.  Not that I bought .pdfs of older edition materials often, but I have before, and it looks like I won't anymore.What I won't do is subscribe to some incredibly hobbled, heavy-DRM or subscription-only model where I have to view things through some secure viewer on WotC's site, where once I stop paying each month they vanish, where I can't print things out.  It's just not that worth it.I loved Dragon Magazine, and I've got shelves full of that magazine, especially the Paizo era (and most of the pre-Paizo stuff is on the archive CD-ROM), but once it went online only. . .I just ignore it completely.  There is a huge difference to me between something you actually have in a magazine that I can subscribe and actually show up in my postal mailbox once per month to or go to my FLGS and pick up a copy, and some paid-access website that they call a magazine for branding purposes.  I loved Forgotten Realms: then they blew it up, they blew it all up (insert Charlton Heston rant here)!  Turning the Forgotten Realms into the "Fourgotten Realms" as I've heard it called by smashing the Realms into little bits with the biggest RSE ever and shoving the remaining fragments into a 4e shaped box meant that I wouldn't even buy the 4e realms books for fluff even if I rejected the crunch (and I'm not exactly interested in any novels in this post-apocalyptic world that is supposedly the Realms either).It's almost like WotC is doing everything it can to lose my business.</blockquote>

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