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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sledge" data-source="post: 2608279" data-attributes="member: 9324">The Walmart analogy is flawed.  It would be more accurate to say that if Walmart put a wall through half their store and you could only buy their "high-profit" items in one half of the store and had to go to the other half to get what you need.  That is what has been proposed.Remember the recent polls.  The question that always comes up is if people would like the store to be better organized.  This is their excuse.  This decision is only a calculated idea by RPGNow to actually kill off their low end customers.  The high-end will be charged less and the low-end charged more making it increasingly difficult to publish.  Unfortunately the majority of these high-end products are only high-end because the company put out 20 (or several hundred in the case of 2 or so companies) pdfs.  These companies only need to sell a bit of each pdf in order to make considerably more money as they swamp the marketplace.  There is no innate quality in these pdfs, only prolificness.Finally there is one other significant poll question I remember.  The results were that most pdf purchasers at RPGNow shop only at RPGNow.  If this is accurate (And I am sadly sure that RPGNow believes this) then the subtext to this is assumption that this will drastically hurt profits of the low-end publisher.In the end consumers will have a choice of where to go and many will not wish to do both.  Supporting either side seems to be a problem.  The small publishers need the support, but will be unfairly charged.  The big publishers will continue to release ever smaller and more frequent pdfs as they will be able to profit much more easily on the low end items.  The end result will only benefit rpgnow.  Worst of all is that once again there is no hint of an attempt to try and make the site navigatable.  I believe this MAY be because it would counterract the attempt to cut off small publishers.  If the site was redesigned the volume wouldn't be a problem.These are however only my opinions.  Not facts.  Do not take them as such.  Feel free to contradict me.  I'm only expressing what seems to be the logical conclusions to me.</blockquote>

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