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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4766874" data-attributes="member: 2209">A more neutral way to phrase it, what proof would show that WotC's decision to pull pdf sales benefited WotC?I think to show it we'd have to compare how much WotC was making from pdf sales, how much they were making from comparable current release stuff when there was pirating, and compare it to sales for current release stuff when the pdf sales are not there. Martial Power with pdf and Arcane Power without pdf seem the closest we could expect for comparables.I don't expect to see numbers though so I don't believe there is really a way to be shown, which leaves answering the question to pretty much gut feelings and preconceived notions based on analogies and understanding of the situation (pulling pdfs was a bad move, or WotC knows what it is doing and acted to maximize its own profit).So I go with my preconceived notion that pdf sales do not detriment an RPG company and that piracy or lack of easy new piracy will have minimal or zero impacts on WotC book sales one way or the other (sorry I don't have the link on hand to the 2004 harvard study on pirated music impacts on CD album sales that concluded a zero/insignificant impact).</blockquote>