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<blockquote data-quote="Destil" data-source="post: 3470952" data-attributes="member: 1980"><p>What kind of plans do you have to help support local game stores in lieu of this? Prepaid cards for those without credit cards would be the very least you could do. But if the digital system is truly on the ball something like the ability to set up games at local stores online could be rather cool, for instance.</p><p></p><p>Is this just going to be a new venue for the same sort of content, or are we talking interactive server / client PC sheets and other game aids?</p><p></p><p>If there is to be pure digital content of the same vein as everything we've seen before will you support something other than the horrid PDF format, like simple HTML/XML. PDF is good for no more than one thing: printing. It's a terrible format to actually read on a PC, because it gives the creator far too much control - Why is my PDF book divided into two columns vertically when my screen is horizontal? (Actually It's a horrid format for anything, but I can at least see printing as giving it a slight advantage... as long as you don't want to print it at anything other than the original scale and aspect ratio.. or do things like get rid of images to save ink...).</p><p></p><p>Why would you reveal something like this, aside an announcement that you should have realized would upset a large part of your fan base, without anything to wow us and get us excited for the future? Were you honestly caught that flat-footed by the backlash of the announcement?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Destil, post: 3470952, member: 1980"] What kind of plans do you have to help support local game stores in lieu of this? Prepaid cards for those without credit cards would be the very least you could do. But if the digital system is truly on the ball something like the ability to set up games at local stores online could be rather cool, for instance. Is this just going to be a new venue for the same sort of content, or are we talking interactive server / client PC sheets and other game aids? If there is to be pure digital content of the same vein as everything we've seen before will you support something other than the horrid PDF format, like simple HTML/XML. PDF is good for no more than one thing: printing. It's a terrible format to actually read on a PC, because it gives the creator far too much control - Why is my PDF book divided into two columns vertically when my screen is horizontal? (Actually It's a horrid format for anything, but I can at least see printing as giving it a slight advantage... as long as you don't want to print it at anything other than the original scale and aspect ratio.. or do things like get rid of images to save ink...). Why would you reveal something like this, aside an announcement that you should have realized would upset a large part of your fan base, without anything to wow us and get us excited for the future? Were you honestly caught that flat-footed by the backlash of the announcement? [/QUOTE]
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