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<blockquote data-quote="graypariah" data-source="post: 7661019" data-attributes="member: 6789912">The arguments that a product being offered for free makes no difference as far as it's effect on their sales, doesn't take into account the realities of modern table top gaming and piracy. Whether someone agrees with piracy or not, they at least need to take into account the realities of it and understand that the table top gaming hobby (and most similar hobbies) are primary made up of computer literate people. Heck, probably more than half of the people who play the hobby and buy the books also <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Nearly+Half+of+Americans+Pirate+Casually+But+Pirates+Purchase+More+Legal+Content/article29702.htm" target="_blank">casually pirate information</a>. Additionally the arguments that there is no contractual obligation for them to produce material is true, but like many people in this hobby I need to know that they are producing a product worth investing my time and money into. I was really psyched about 5th edition and I would be perfectly ok if they never produced another book, but I do need the game system I play to either have fan made material and tools readily available or have functional and affordable versions available. Currently there are some of the former available, but if they start removing them without replacing them with the latter I wont have much choice but to jump ship.I think a lot of the people that are posting against WotC's decision are like me, they really love the game system and are struggling to avoid not having to switch to a different one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="graypariah, post: 7661019, member: 6789912"] The arguments that a product being offered for free makes no difference as far as it's effect on their sales, doesn't take into account the realities of modern table top gaming and piracy. Whether someone agrees with piracy or not, they at least need to take into account the realities of it and understand that the table top gaming hobby (and most similar hobbies) are primary made up of computer literate people. Heck, probably more than half of the people who play the hobby and buy the books also [URL="http://www.dailytech.com/Nearly+Half+of+Americans+Pirate+Casually+But+Pirates+Purchase+More+Legal+Content/article29702.htm"]casually pirate information[/URL]. Additionally the arguments that there is no contractual obligation for them to produce material is true, but like many people in this hobby I need to know that they are producing a product worth investing my time and money into. I was really psyched about 5th edition and I would be perfectly ok if they never produced another book, but I do need the game system I play to either have fan made material and tools readily available or have functional and affordable versions available. Currently there are some of the former available, but if they start removing them without replacing them with the latter I wont have much choice but to jump ship. I think a lot of the people that are posting against WotC's decision are like me, they really love the game system and are struggling to avoid not having to switch to a different one. [/QUOTE]

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