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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5622824" data-attributes="member: 71571">Except of course, that PDFs didn't make WoTC the boatloads of money people claim they do, and that WoTC shut it down after a handful of months because <a href="http://www.scribd.com/" target="_blank">Scribd</a> was making more money off the pdfs than them OR Paizo were.I like these broad generalizations of how PDFs will revolutionize tabletop gaming and how wizard is a fool for not trying them.  It's like you exist in a world where they didn't actually try them.Those -exact same- files are still being circulated today on torrent sites, etc.  And that piracy doesn't even just impact the digital sales, they have a negative effect on physical sales as well.Given WoTC's major profit-line happens to involve selling physical trading cards in physical stores, it's not impossible for them to want to support their physical meal ticket.  Going all digital would have a negative impact on physical stores, which would have a negative impact on physical card sales, which would have a negative impact on their bottom line.When you consider 'good business' ideas for WoTC... do remember that Magic: The Gathering exists.  It's important.</blockquote>