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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 8136030" data-attributes="member: 6803337">Offering a desirable product, then abandoning the market without providing the product (or providing poor product or providing a tiny trickle of product compared to demand) is inviting somebody else to fill that niche.  Traditionally with RPGs that has meant copying a bunch of pages out of a book for use at home.Is it hard to figure out, with WotC not offering other-language versions of 5e while they get into a legal tangle with the translator, that other people will do home translations to pass around among friends?  And potentially offer copies to other persons?  And that those copies as they spread will (1) undermine future sales of official translated product and (2) land in the hands of somebody with more greed than honor?Piracy is illegal, yet it is fully possible for an IP owner to conduct themselves in such a manner that the only way forward is without them, without the cooperation normally expected in a mutually beneficial relationship.My position is that WotC needs to remember the purpose of a company - to provide goods / services - and get a move on doing so, not set up infinite delay conditions.  Finish with GF9 and find somebody else to start over, or partner with GF9 to find better translators.  But get the translations out for sale.</blockquote>