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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4751447" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'd be a little curious to see how many people don't care as long as WotC provides them a good product at a fair price, and who also actually have a moral/ethical problem with piracy. Why so practical about Wizards, and so incensed at the idea that the "right price" for someone might be free?No, for me, a company's practices have a HUGE effect on whether or not I'll buy from them, even if those practices don't affect me directly, because sooner or later, they do. It's philosophical for me. If the free market dictates who has the money (and thus the power) in our society, my little contribution to the power of a company will be, as little as possible, to a company that I don't feel I can actually support.I know everything's compromised and it's impossible to find the ideal I'm looking for, but the journey is more important to me than the destination, anyway. I need to encourage companies to become better. WotC's recent move is something that I don't feel I can support. It's not quite to the level of <a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/most-evil-companies.php" target="_blank">some folks</a>, but it's dumb.Honestly, it's priorities. It's more important to me to behave according to my belief system than it is to get Arcane Power next week. I don't need to buy every book WotC pumps out to have fun playing 4e. Honestly, none of us do. It's a small sacrifice to at least stand for what you believe in, in yourself, even if no one else does it. If you can't make a small sacrifice like 2-3 weeks for your D&D game, I wonder if you can make the big sacrifices for the big things that some companies do. Do you care what Bayer does as long as your headache is gone? Do you care what the mining companies do in South America and Africa as long as your wedding band is shiny? Do you care about the war profiteers as long as you feel like your county is bombing the right guys?Maybe I'm being too sensitive about it, and WotC is obviously not in that camp, but the motive is the same. I don't want to be associated with something I don't think is right -- I can't stand here listening to you and your racist friend, so to speak. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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