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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4744620" data-attributes="member: 807">Disclaimer: I was never a pdf consumer so this obviously affects me much less than some of you.Having said that do what you feel you need to do. Just remember that if you do such a thing, make sure it is clear to WotC that it is in protest.  Otherwise, the "suits" who are disconnected from the action and just looking at numbers will think that the product failed on its own, leading to less support to the brand in general, or higher cost on future products (even if a nickle more) to make up for some lost expected returns on this product.Having spent most of my career talking to the suits who look at numbers, I know that, frankly, they're just looking at the numbers even if there is a footnote regarding the reason for the dip in a product's return.  And it ends up being seen as loss of interest in the brand or product rather than a statement by the consumer.I would imagine it'd be even worse at a big name like Hasbro, where you have suit after suit in a giant hierarchy where each level of the suit hierarchy gets a more compressed financial statement.  D&D as a brand is eventually just compressed to a single line number in a list of brand ROIs (where the brand gets reviewed as a whole rather than looking at individual product returns from said brands).Of course, I have no personal knowledge of Hasbro or WotC.  I am just speaking from my own experience in the business world.</blockquote>

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