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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5706916" data-attributes="member: 22779">I believe they are in open Beta.  I honestly don't know.  I was going by what was stated earlier in the thread that WOTC is claiming that can be used by users of any edition.  I'm not involved in the beta testing, so, I can't answer that.Sigh.  We've been through this so many times.  It's not available because it's not profitable to make it available.  For whatever reason, be it that they don't want to compete with themselves, or they don't want to devote resources to turning other works into pdf, or they don't want to devote resources into suing yet more people for piracy (whatever happened with that piracy suing thing anyway?).  I don't know.All I do know is that if it was profitable, they'd be doing it.  They aren't doing it, so they have deemed it not profitable.OTOH, leaving up the 3e material costs them nothing (or close enough to nothing) and still drives lots of eyeballs to the WOTC site.  Anyone doing any sort of websearch for things 3e is going to get links to the WOTC site.  It's worth it to leave that material up for that, if nothing else.Look I understand that people are pissed that WOTC got rid of the pdf's.  I get that.  But what I don't understand is the tinfoil hat conspiracy theories as to why they did it.  They did it because they thought it would cost more money than it was worth.  How they arrived at that determination I don't know, but, why assign other motives when simple greed and business sense makes a pretty decent argument?</blockquote>

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