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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 7985243" data-attributes="member: 4881">Gotta disagree with you here sir and/or madam.This is an RPG discussion and news site.  The forums are here to discuss various RPGs in whatever ways fit the board rules.  You can come here and say how you think 5e is the next step of human evolution or you can come here and let everyone know you think HARN is the worst piece of poop ever conceived.Discussion....not rah rah cheerleading and not pooping in other people's cornflakes.ENWorld isn't a beehive and it's not necessary to call out the hive guards to defend the queen, whether or not that queen is WotC, consumer friendly policies, or RPGs themselves.Discussion...back and forth discourse to talk about a topic that interests you.It's not unfair of someone to lament that WotC isn't embracing PDFs any more than it's not unfair of someone saying WotC can do whatever the heck they want.  Neither side is right, because there is no right.  It's just like.....your opinion man.Personally, I think the cost of free PDFs is negligible, piracy isn't a good reason for not releasing official ones, and that WotC doesn't offer PDFs because of sales or piracy concerns.  I think the goodwill earned with coreleasing electronic copies along with physical is going to happen eventually, we just aren't there yet.I also remember I used to have to pay per minute to make long distance calls or be on the "internet",  broadband was less than 1meg, and I used to have to wait 4-6 weeks for shipping but industries change over time and it's OK for a consumer (and fan) of that industry to want more for their money.</blockquote>

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