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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5375391" data-attributes="member: 71571">Ah yes, the 'I don't have a business degree or actual facts behind the impact of piracy but I got a quote from Bill Gates about Operating Systems and assume it applies equally across all products ever.'1)  Bill Gates would rather piracy than no OS in people's homes because it's market penetration for the platform, creating more demand for software that runs on said platform, encouraging more companies to create software to fill that demand.  Thusly, he makes money.  Market saturation of the D&D creation tools do not create demand for more D&D stuff.2)  While admitting the tools are a convenience for character creation, really, how hard is it to put down four powers, some class features, one feat, and some math which is generally the same for every power?  You're overstating the difficulty involved.3)  There is no indication of a causal effect between piracy of the creation tools and acquisition of the texts those tools draw from.  There IS an indication of a causal effect of having those tools available from piracy, and the not paying for those tools. Look, I get that for some businesses, piracy can create revenue, however in this case, that can hardly be proven.  Piracy causing a loss of revenue CAN be proven, but the idea that 'piracy is making more sales!' is less of a statement of fact, and more an article of faith.  Moreover, it isn't just piracy that affects this; they also want to do something about the 'subscribe a month, grab everything, quit' customers--they're not using the system as intended either.For the record, I don't like the move to web-based myself.  But I'm not about to confuse that for 'It is therefore best for WoTC to do so because I have faith piracy will make money for them.'</blockquote>

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