Primitive Screwhead
First Post
Yes.. and No.. and It depends.
Your freindly neighborhood Google will also turn up RPGnow and Drivethru.com quite often.
Software piracy is not really any different than any other stealing...its just easier to do and easier to get away with. Meaning more people are willing to do it.
So, as usual when things get stolen, two things happen:
Some stuff sky-rockets in price to offset the loss of profits via the wallets of the legal folks.
Some stuff drops both in price and quality, developers figuring you should be willing to pay a couple bucks for a PDF even if its just to find out what is in it.
Some stuff ignores piracy and continues to march on. {usually producers without a need to maintian income from a particular line}
There have been other threads here where much more intelligent people than me, with background in econmics, can speak more to the profit/loss point.
I think the biggest impact is on the game at large, as ripples of the first two options start diminishing what is legally affordable and worth it. This drives away new players {see threads on the cost of the 3.5 PHB when it came out...or the dozens of $1.00 PDFs on RPGNow...}
Piracy is just plain bad form.
Hopefully your question here, in a forum well known for attendance by many publishers of gaming material.. the very folks who are taking a hit from this activity, is truely meant to seek knowledge.. instead of starting a 'discussion' of the most base sort.
If you want to see an impact on the gaming community at large, convince the pirates that buying the material will mean more and better material down the road.
If you want ready, quick reference the the PHB/DMG, etc... buy E-Tools. The data sets come with the full book in help format
{just no page numbers
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Cardinal.. agreed. Hopefully this doesn't go that way.
Your freindly neighborhood Google will also turn up RPGnow and Drivethru.com quite often.
Software piracy is not really any different than any other stealing...its just easier to do and easier to get away with. Meaning more people are willing to do it.
So, as usual when things get stolen, two things happen:
Some stuff sky-rockets in price to offset the loss of profits via the wallets of the legal folks.
Some stuff drops both in price and quality, developers figuring you should be willing to pay a couple bucks for a PDF even if its just to find out what is in it.
Some stuff ignores piracy and continues to march on. {usually producers without a need to maintian income from a particular line}
There have been other threads here where much more intelligent people than me, with background in econmics, can speak more to the profit/loss point.
I think the biggest impact is on the game at large, as ripples of the first two options start diminishing what is legally affordable and worth it. This drives away new players {see threads on the cost of the 3.5 PHB when it came out...or the dozens of $1.00 PDFs on RPGNow...}
Piracy is just plain bad form.
Hopefully your question here, in a forum well known for attendance by many publishers of gaming material.. the very folks who are taking a hit from this activity, is truely meant to seek knowledge.. instead of starting a 'discussion' of the most base sort.
If you want to see an impact on the gaming community at large, convince the pirates that buying the material will mean more and better material down the road.
If you want ready, quick reference the the PHB/DMG, etc... buy E-Tools. The data sets come with the full book in help format
{just no page numbers
}Cardinal.. agreed. Hopefully this doesn't go that way.
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