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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6540685" data-attributes="member: 37579">The catch is, WotC is a CCG company, either MtG in North America and DuelMasters/ KaiJudo in Japan. So all the upper management and likely most of the middle and lower management thinks CCG business. CCGs are based around buying multiple packs of cheaply produced cards in the hopes of getting elusive rares and desired cards. The idea of producing an official PDF that has all the content and is official and considered the same for play is... antithetical to the business model. As is allowing (or encouraging) people to produce their own content. There's no benefit to the company to have people buy a single $10 or even $20 PDF with all the cards when they might buy a $50 box (or two or three). Especially when PDFs can be pirated and, in terms of play, a print out of a card in a sleeve works just as well as a story bought copy. Convincing them about the realities of RPGs and publishing takes time and effort, plus interest on their part to be convinced. Convincing someone that people will buy second copies of a book they already own is hard, because it sounds so... weird.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6540685, member: 37579"] The catch is, WotC is a CCG company, either MtG in North America and DuelMasters/ KaiJudo in Japan. So all the upper management and likely most of the middle and lower management thinks CCG business. CCGs are based around buying multiple packs of cheaply produced cards in the hopes of getting elusive rares and desired cards. The idea of producing an official PDF that has all the content and is official and considered the same for play is... antithetical to the business model. As is allowing (or encouraging) people to produce their own content. There's no benefit to the company to have people buy a single $10 or even $20 PDF with all the cards when they might buy a $50 box (or two or three). Especially when PDFs can be pirated and, in terms of play, a print out of a card in a sleeve works just as well as a story bought copy. Convincing them about the realities of RPGs and publishing takes time and effort, plus interest on their part to be convinced. Convincing someone that people will buy second copies of a book they already own is hard, because it sounds so... weird. [/QUOTE]

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