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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Twowolves" data-source="post: 4843699" data-attributes="member: 18093">No, I can see why they would be upset, just like I can see why my 2 year old gets upset when I don't let him have a popcicle instead of vegetables. The brick and mortar stores wouldn't sell many of this book anyway. At $50 a pop, most people would get it from Amazon or some other online store. Are BnM stores mad at ALL PDF sales, or just cheap ones? From what I gather, a lot of BnM stores are already mad at Paizo because of their subscription service (which sells at a discount AND gives free PDFs of the product), so how is that a loss for Paizo anyway? Are newstand owners mad at the internet too? How so those buggywhip salesmen feel about Ford these days?So it's ok for them to just accept it when WotC does something similar with the DDI, and when Amazon does it to everyone, but by gosh, how dare Paizo try to drum up business in the 21st century??!!? Sounds like a bad case of the "I'm entitled" mentality. And I don't think there will be a significant ammount of lost sales. At all. In fact, I think there will be more, much more business coming down the pike directly attributible to this move. More players = more sales of adventures, cards, dice, sourcebooks, minis, etc etc. No, it's not. Not at all. It'd be more like WotC selling a STARTER DECK at pennies on the dollar, then selling boosters at list price. Or free trial downloads of online games. Ask Blizzard how those two week free trial offers hurt their sales. And I fail to understand how online cards for an online game hinders sales of physical product at all anyway. Yeah, you could trade in a virtual set for a physical set, but really, how many of those were handed out? Since you had to collect a whole set (including foils, IIRC) before you could trade in, it wasn't exactly a loss in $$$.Finally, overseas sales of Paizo products should skyrocket from thsi move. Exchange rates plus shipping is putting overseas sales in a stranglehold, and this move should blow that market wide open. Anyone who is a gamer and not a Brick and Mortar store owner (and one who refuses to accept the reality of doing business in the digital age and adapting accordingly at that) should be thrilled at this, and even smart BnM store owners should realize that this will only drive MORE sales of their product in the end.</blockquote>

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