Former WotC Customers, would resuming pdf sales bring you back?

[EricNoah]

There are out of print things I would buy from them but it wouldn't get me to buy new/current items.

 

[malraux]

It'd get me buying the PDF's again, rather then acquiring them by other means. Other products I'd judge on their merits. So I suppose it depends if you'd say a purchase of WoTC PDF's 'brings you back'

I'd say "this" but refuse to on the grounds that it might incriminate myself. That said, I've been buying 4e print books and have been a subscriber to DDi constantly, so its not like I stopped buying completely.

 

[Festivus]

There are out of print things I would buy from them but it wouldn't get me to buy new/current items.

I would love to be able to get my hands on more old 1E adventures, Gamma World and most importantly, a PDF copy of Top Secret so I could have the missing pages back from my paper copy.

As for 4E stuff, I like books that I can have at the table / game store, and the DDI subscription covers anything else that a PDF would have benefitted me for (e.g. search). So what need have I for 4E pdfs?

 

[Perram]

The PDFs issue was, for me, the straw that broke the camels back and sent me packing towards Paizo. It wasn't the only issue, but it would be safe to assume that I wouldn't have gone out looking for an alternative to D&D if it had not occurred.

 

[Shemeska]

At this point, probably not. Not interested in 4e, or the design direction WotC has gone with in 4e, so the only thing I might purchase would be older edition pdfs. But at this point, I'm not likely to financially reward a company that has so diverged from my likes on so many points, and which has repeatedly over the past two years done their best to alienate me as a consumer.

Plus, I've already moved on to a new edition (Pathfinder), and other games entirely (nWoD, Eclipse Phase).

 

[crazy_cat]

No. No interest in 4e; and happier buying older edition stuff in hard copy when I can find it.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

No, they just plain pissed me off with the withdrawal of pre-4E pdfs, and even if they brought them back and I wasn't angry, they don't exactly do much to make those pdfs affordable.

And I know it's good business sense or whatever to steer people to the new edition, but I also didn't really like that they sold 4E pdfs at a discount, but not older editions, even though if they were truly worried about undercutting physical nook sales with cheap pdfs, they'd have done the exact oposite.... And now with no pdf's being sold, 4E at least still has DDI, while older editions are just left to the cold. So yeah...screw 'em.

EDIT: Perhaps to summarize: It greatly angers me that the purported reasoning for stopping pdf sales was because it was hurting sales of their new releases (4E) due to "easy pirating," while their solution has in turn had a much larger impact on the (legal) availability of other editions of the game.

 

[Morrus]

Doesn't make a difference for me. A combination of the books plus the character generator is all I need.

 

[I'm A Banana]

If they put out old-school PDFs, I would buy them.

With 4e, I'm happy using the books + DDI for playing (leaning mostly on the latter).

 

[lutecius]

Inspired by this thread: non-switchers:...

Mine was much, MUCH better, just saying.

I like pdfs and I think pulling them was an incredibly crappy decision for all the reasons that have been stated, but WotC lost me before that with 4e so it won't change anything.

I did pick up games I did not intend to play because the pdf were cheap, but again, that was not the case for 4e.