Let me give you personal anectdotle evidence of their choice.
I wanted to buy the PDF. They do not offer it to me. I did not buy the hard copy. Lost sale, directly by their action.
I represent a group of 7 players. In that group one player bought a book, for all of us to use as necessary with the compendium being used in general.
Now, 1 book vs what would of been 5 pdf purchases and 2 book purchases.
PDF would of run probably $20 or so. And the book can be bought on Amazon for $17.
They made 17 dollars. (actually Amazon did, Wizards made closer to 8 off the book in question.
What would of been $134. (Or more likely $15 per pdf as pure profit sharing with RPGNOW, and 8 per hardcopy with whomever buys it.)
Tell me.. 1 book vs the equivalent of 7.
And who loses? Wizards, because of their over the top retarded (in the dictionary sense) reaction. The factor about PH2 being sold out, and pirated 10-1, and yet is still was sold out is incredible. Because as much as I'm a book lover in pdf form now, I know many others require the tactile response of a book, a book they can see in their library.
It still boggles the mind that they stopped taking in revenue that was assured. And tried to rely on an older method, that isn't as friendly.
I'm glad Greg Leeds came out and spoke about it. But to me this is just an outright failure. It took the pirates 10 days to pirate and ocr the book. That's it? And who loses? Wizards, and those of us who would of bought a pdf. And now they don't have a way to track who the users of it are, there is no method to find out who in Poland bought it and had it pirated.
This is why, companies have to have reality checks before they implement a drastic idea like this.
They lost money directly from my pocket. It's gone. I won't spend it on them. Unless they offer me a copy of the book in pdf format like all the others I've bought of theirs right up until this great debacle.
I wanted to buy the PDF. They do not offer it to me. I did not buy the hard copy. Lost sale, directly by their action.
I represent a group of 7 players. In that group one player bought a book, for all of us to use as necessary with the compendium being used in general.
Now, 1 book vs what would of been 5 pdf purchases and 2 book purchases.
PDF would of run probably $20 or so. And the book can be bought on Amazon for $17.
They made 17 dollars. (actually Amazon did, Wizards made closer to 8 off the book in question.
What would of been $134. (Or more likely $15 per pdf as pure profit sharing with RPGNOW, and 8 per hardcopy with whomever buys it.)
Tell me.. 1 book vs the equivalent of 7.
And who loses? Wizards, because of their over the top retarded (in the dictionary sense) reaction. The factor about PH2 being sold out, and pirated 10-1, and yet is still was sold out is incredible. Because as much as I'm a book lover in pdf form now, I know many others require the tactile response of a book, a book they can see in their library.
It still boggles the mind that they stopped taking in revenue that was assured. And tried to rely on an older method, that isn't as friendly.
I'm glad Greg Leeds came out and spoke about it. But to me this is just an outright failure. It took the pirates 10 days to pirate and ocr the book. That's it? And who loses? Wizards, and those of us who would of bought a pdf. And now they don't have a way to track who the users of it are, there is no method to find out who in Poland bought it and had it pirated.
This is why, companies have to have reality checks before they implement a drastic idea like this.
They lost money directly from my pocket. It's gone. I won't spend it on them. Unless they offer me a copy of the book in pdf format like all the others I've bought of theirs right up until this great debacle.
