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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Firos" data-source="post: 4749599" data-attributes="member: 68533">Even though Leeds implies this, your comment is an absurd straw man argument. WotC has a vested interest in having brick and mortar stores doing well with their products, surely. Moreover, Leeds only implies this. Would your cynicism apply equally to other game companies? Have you decried this:   as an obvious bit of capitalization on another company's blunder? I can accept this, though, and I couldn't be happier to save some money on Paizo products. I can accept it because this is what companies do; Paizo is giving gamers a good deal, even if the implication is "We're the company that really understands gamers, unlike that evil gaming corp on the coast over there." Leeds wants to portray his company as championing brick and mortar stores with this act, and has some reason to believe that it does, even if it serves his company's interest, or he thinks it does. I do think that people should take this more seriously though:  This is almost an understatement IMNSHO. PHB2 content came out at the month it was published on the character builder in DDi. For the cost of two or three books, I can build characters using rules from all the books, including the online Dragon magazine. I can download the character builder four other times, so me and four friends can take advantage of this, and I can do this at every update. There just isn't any other deal this good. If you hate 4E, then it is worthless. But it is worth noting - people who want access to new WotC material electronically can do so quite economically. The only drawback, and it seems a significant one still, is the lack of compatibility with other electronic systems.</blockquote>

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