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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 6550728" data-attributes="member: 51747">I don't hold it against Wizards for Morningstar's failure. I mean they tried something and it didn't work. Hey it happens, even to the best of us. What matters is: what you do next. Do you get just give up on the idea of digital tools or do you try again. Just a simple statement like "We are in the process of hearing proposals from other potential contractors," goes a long way. It lets the customers know that the goal is not dead and progress is being made towards it, while still not promising what it will look like, what it can do, or when it will be released. But there is nothing. Paizo sells the PDFs to all their large hardcover books for $10, regardless of if/where you bought the physical book. Paizo made this decision for 1 simple reason: to hinder piracy. Those that pirate typically fall into 2 camps: 1) those that do not want to pay money for any RPG book ever or 2) those that feel the retail price of the PDF is too expensive. Group 1 will never be their customers while something can be done about group 2. At $50 for the core book, it would not be unreasonable to Paizo to charge $25-$30 for the PDF, but lets be honest, not that many are going to buy it. This would cause group 2's numbers are going to swell. But by offering it for $10, Its a very reasonable price for a 500+ page book, they managed to keep group 2's numbers to a minimum. By comparison, Wizards has released only a gimpped version of the game as a PDF and there is no legal version of the full game on PDF. So those that want more than Fighter/Rogue/Cleric/Magic User on PDF have to turn to piracy. This means that Group 1 is still just as strong as it always will be, nothing is done to reduce the size of Group 2 and now we have a Group 3: those that are willing to pay a high price for a legal PDF. The no-PDF policy is encouraging piracy, and it is leaving money on the table.</blockquote>

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