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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6552889" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm pretty sure this has been addressed upthread.WotC wants strong game stores: that is how it promotes and sells M:tG. PDFs undermine strong game stores; hence WotC isn't releasing PDFs of core books.I can't remember who posted this (someone, on some thread in the past couple of months), but it seemed plausible then and it still does.The money that you say is being left on the table is not comparable, I believe, to the money that strong game stores generate by way of M:tG.I don't know what "money grab" you are talking about. The GSL was a free licence that licensed the use of WotC trademarks, trade dress and some arguably copyrighted items.That the uptake was low is a matter of record, but that has nothing to do with it being a "money grab".As for Hasbro acting against their customer base, I am part of their customer base and from 2008 to 2013 or thereabouts they served me fine (the last 4e book I bought was the Dungeon Survival Handbook in 2013, but it was around a year later that I subscribed for a little while to DDI, to download the magazines).And given the reported sales information for 5e - Amazon ranks, ICV ranks, posts by game store owners - WotC/Hasbro seems to be giving a big customer base exactly what it wants!</blockquote>