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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 4945895" data-attributes="member: 53">Or don't really care much about getting the PDFs or about their PDF policy. Even if WotC felt some compulsion to put their products up as PDFs, I doubt they would drop much from their "full cover price of print copy" anyway.  Look at WotCs policies from the beginning, and their current policy makes a lot of sense.  First, their pricing makes it clear that they are only interested in serving the market that has trouble getting the print products, or that feel that they are getting value out of playing that price (the fact that people from WotC have stated that is a bonus bit of support).  I know that market exists, but I doubt it is large enough that WotC is swearing over losing that source of revenue.  Dropping PDFs of current product lines is probably not very painful.Second, they have also had the policy for a while of "only one edition in print."  The one exception to that has been the PDFs.  Pulling old edition PDFs makes sense for them when you realize that has been their reasoning for a while.  I would be surprised if they put them back up if they decided to start releasing PDFs again.Third, they have had a policy of supporting the game stores that has been openly stated.  How well they do this certainly can be argued, but it has been the reason behind a number of their polices.  In fact, the price of the new PDFs has been one of the policies that have used this justification (they don't want the PDFs to draw off sales of print products because of price).  The fact that the older products are removed also helps the game stores (since many of them have stock of older products, which of lost value since the PDFs were available).I would not be completely surprised if sometime in the future WotC finds a solution to releasing internet versions of their products.  I doubt it will be soon, and I am almost certain it will not be the "cheap, readily available, easily copyable" products that some are hoping for.</blockquote>

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