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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheFindus" data-source="post: 4787357" data-attributes="member: 75791">I understand your point of view. I guess that there are a lot of people on this board who share it.You seem to be a collector of these old modules and sourcebooks (please correct me if I am wrong about this) and would like WotC to support your search for the old versions by offering them in a pdf format.Now, we do not have the business numbers of WotC on the sales of pdfs of old modules and sourcebooks, so we can only speculate. But they are a very successful company and must look at those numbers before making a decision like this (pulling the pdfs). And my guess is that the numbers where in favor of  actually going through with this decision. Because the way it seems, byselling old pdfs, the products of other companies were supported and not the 4e product that WotC wants to sell. So it is a legitimate decision to not allow other companies to sell the old versions.People like you suffer from that, for sure. But WotC must see this as irrelevant businesswise (from a sales point of view). So it still remains a legitimate business decision I think. Because the overall sales probably were not so good. There certainly is no evil scheme to hurt collectors behind it, I don't think. Just a vision of making more money for WotC and less money for their competitors who are benefitting from the OGL, a product which WotC paid for and gave to them for (almost?) free. I am not sure if a company like Green Ronin would be where they are now without the OGL. Did they not produce a lot of D20 stuff in the beginning and use the experience gathered with the system to create True20? And Paizo profits from it for sure. And I would have done the same thing, don't get me wrong. But I fail to see why there are people who expect (instead of only hope for) WotC to be as generous again with 4e.That I do not understand.</blockquote>

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