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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 5444321" data-attributes="member: 6669048">Here's a question...if they're not using a collected format anymore, why the hell are they still releasing Dragon and Dungeon articles in PDF format?!&nbsp; It'd be EASIER to edit if it was a regular website.&nbsp; Stat block for a monster change?&nbsp; Swap out that particular image and leave the rest of the article alone.&nbsp; Get the wrong DC for a check?&nbsp; It'd take literally less than a minute to edit and have that edit go live.&nbsp; Worried about piracy?&nbsp; Hell of a lot more work to pirate a website than it is to just click on the &quot;Save&quot; icon and throw on a file sharing site.All it does is slow down or occasionally crash my web browser by introducing Adobe's memory sink on top of Firefox's memory sink.&nbsp; Saving the articles to read offline (does anyone actually do this aside from the collected issues?) doesn't come into play with broadband and mobile browsing being so prevalent.&nbsp; Also, ever tried to read a PDF document on an iPhone?&nbsp; Pain in the ass is an understatement.And I'm not sure why they think that the collected issues WOULDN'T be downloaded less.&nbsp; An article's up, I'm going to view it in the web browser.&nbsp; I want to look at it again a few days later, I'm going to view it in the browser again.&nbsp; That's two downloads.&nbsp; However, I'm only going to download each collected issue one time since it's a much larger file that fits lovingly in a directory on my hard drive next to character portrait images I've stolen off the web and various character sheets.The more I think about it, the more I'm not sure if I should be mad at Wizards for being so stupid with so many obviously intelligent people working there, or feel sorry for them because the execs at Hasbro have no idea how to market a product for an audience with the age range that D&amp;D has (Youngest player I've ever seen was 11 and the oldest was in his 60s or 70s) but keep sticking their fingers in telling them what to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 5444321, member: 6669048"] Here's a question...if they're not using a collected format anymore, why the hell are they still releasing Dragon and Dungeon articles in PDF format?! It'd be EASIER to edit if it was a regular website. Stat block for a monster change? Swap out that particular image and leave the rest of the article alone. Get the wrong DC for a check? It'd take literally less than a minute to edit and have that edit go live. Worried about piracy? Hell of a lot more work to pirate a website than it is to just click on the "Save" icon and throw on a file sharing site. All it does is slow down or occasionally crash my web browser by introducing Adobe's memory sink on top of Firefox's memory sink. Saving the articles to read offline (does anyone actually do this aside from the collected issues?) doesn't come into play with broadband and mobile browsing being so prevalent. Also, ever tried to read a PDF document on an iPhone? Pain in the ass is an understatement. And I'm not sure why they think that the collected issues WOULDN'T be downloaded less. An article's up, I'm going to view it in the web browser. I want to look at it again a few days later, I'm going to view it in the browser again. That's two downloads. However, I'm only going to download each collected issue one time since it's a much larger file that fits lovingly in a directory on my hard drive next to character portrait images I've stolen off the web and various character sheets. The more I think about it, the more I'm not sure if I should be mad at Wizards for being so stupid with so many obviously intelligent people working there, or feel sorry for them because the execs at Hasbro have no idea how to market a product for an audience with the age range that D&D has (Youngest player I've ever seen was 11 and the oldest was in his 60s or 70s) but keep sticking their fingers in telling them what to do. [/QUOTE]

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