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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smetzger" data-source="post: 1823998" data-attributes="member: 1230">So your argument is analogous to: "Buy at full price from your FLGS instead of discount from Amazon because it supports the FLGS and keeps it in business and thats better for the gaming community."Take these three conditions:1) OGC stripping became prevalent.2) This occured shortly after products were published.3) This is offered for free.If all three of these conditions were met then I do think it would hurt sales and hurt the business and therefore should not be done.  However, I do not think all three of these conditions will ever occur.  What Cerg. is doing doesn't apply because the amount of time is too long after publication and he is one person doing a few products.  There have been neer 100% OGC products out for a long time and there have been many people proposing different schemes for posting the OGC for free on the web.  Yet, none of these have become prevalent enough or been posted quickly enough to adversly effect sales.  Unless you have a concrete example where all 3 have occured, the question is moot because OGC is just too difficult to pull out and post in a complete and timely fashion.</blockquote>