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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derro" data-source="post: 4742853" data-attributes="member: 51010">It's disappointing that the leading company in the industry feels the need to punish its customers based on the actions of a few bad apples. There also seems to be no thought as to how this affects the intermediary providers, RPGNow and DrivethruRPG. Removing your product is one thing, failing to provide the downloads that the customer has already payed for is another entirely. I'm sure this is going to have some repercussions for the download sites that WotC is happily insulated from by the contracts in place.I can understand WotC's concern for newer product being pirated. D&D 4e and SW Saga, presumably, are primary revenue generators at this point and losing any of those sales to piracy is not just a dip in the stream but also an indicator of the viability of the line. Removing older products, specifically very early edition modules and supplements, is just reactionary. Those products are supplemental revenue at best. WotC did not pay for their production costs and was only required to pay the relatively small amounts of money to turn them into clean PDF files. Before the PDF market existed no one but re-sellers were making any money on these products and there was a finite amount of stock. I'll say it again, I'm very disappointed. WotC has been sinking lower and lower on my list of preferred publishers and I think this just pushed them over the edge. I know that corporate culture has to be arbitrary sometimes, it is an unfortunate product of the free market, but making moves like this without any real explanation or consideration for your market or partners goes too far.</blockquote>

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