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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4747126" data-attributes="member: 59506">Potentially be quite bad, but involve some positive opportunities.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you're just talking about pdf's: then small publishers that only have the overhead for pdf only publishing would quickly go out of business.  The authors of those products would then either not even bother, or just post to the internet as free community downloads (as many already do).</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you're talking about all RPG's (only downloading pirated pdf's and buying zero hardcopy books): well then all RPG companies would quickly go out of business (that would be a lot of people out of work<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant    :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" />).</li> </ul>The RPG hobby would become a fan supported hobby only, with only fan connections and fan support on the internet (which in and of itself wouldn't be all bad, except for the "people losing their jobs" part).  The fan base would probably shrink signifiicantly.  The amount and quality level of progressive development of gaming ideas would also significantly slow down.  The evolution of the game, although viral, would probably be very slow (relatively static). The positive side, RPG's would wholly belong to the fans (although technically, our hobby already is owned by the fans - even though some companies tend to forget that<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />).</blockquote>

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