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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 1592667" data-attributes="member: 5473">Absolutely.  I imagine that it becomes very difficult for publishers to try to determine where that line begins and ends.  I imagine that many of them may get frustrated and think that the *actual* potential purchasers are much lower, due to all the noise created by people who would never have bought those products in the first place.  I know I would get frustrated as a publisher trying to figure that out.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That's part of why the poll of "Will you buy from DTRPG" is flawed - I imagine that a lot of the "No" votes are from people who wouldn't buy PDFs in the first place, no matter who was selling them.  Sure, I can see that.  But, I think there has to come a point when you see a lot of different people complaining about something that they don't like and you decide to do something about it.  That's very hard to figure out.  It's hard to separate the valid claims and concerns from the "Company Y sux!" flaming.  But, just because 50 "valid" (or, let's say, "politely worded") concerns are buried amongst 500 "flamer" posts doesn't make the 50 valid concerns less valid.</blockquote>