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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4754209" data-attributes="member: 2209">PDF policy.I would suggest selling pdfs of old edition stuff until you have a new system in place you wish to sell them under. Removing legal sale opportunities does not eliminate the pirated copies that already exist, it just means nobody can pay you for the legal ones. There is demand for legally purchasing old edition pdfs, the work has already been done, and the costs of hosting and managing the distribution of them are borned by the pdf distributors, this seems to be pure ongoing profit, small as it is.For newer 4e ones if you wish to avoid the instant pirating from quality pdf copies issue I would suggest delaying release of pdfs until after the period you feel is appropriate. Pirates will scan and OCR from physical books, but delaying for that transaction time will avoid the instant downloads.If not then please explain how WotC believes pirating is hurting WotC and how removing the pdfs will benefit WotC. These do not appear clear right now.Wishlist suggestion, reduce the price of the oop 3e pdfs and the current 4e pdfs. $20 was my personal cut off for eventually purchasing a 4e PH or MM pdf to try out the system. I wasn't buying 4e stuff for the same reason I wasn't getting exalted books, they both sounded neat but I'm happy with 3e and the pdf prices were too high to tempt me to check out a new system when there is plenty of other cheap gaming pdfs of things I am interested in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4754209, member: 2209"] PDF policy. I would suggest selling pdfs of old edition stuff until you have a new system in place you wish to sell them under. Removing legal sale opportunities does not eliminate the pirated copies that already exist, it just means nobody can pay you for the legal ones. There is demand for legally purchasing old edition pdfs, the work has already been done, and the costs of hosting and managing the distribution of them are borned by the pdf distributors, this seems to be pure ongoing profit, small as it is. For newer 4e ones if you wish to avoid the instant pirating from quality pdf copies issue I would suggest delaying release of pdfs until after the period you feel is appropriate. Pirates will scan and OCR from physical books, but delaying for that transaction time will avoid the instant downloads. If not then please explain how WotC believes pirating is hurting WotC and how removing the pdfs will benefit WotC. These do not appear clear right now. Wishlist suggestion, reduce the price of the oop 3e pdfs and the current 4e pdfs. $20 was my personal cut off for eventually purchasing a 4e PH or MM pdf to try out the system. I wasn't buying 4e stuff for the same reason I wasn't getting exalted books, they both sounded neat but I'm happy with 3e and the pdf prices were too high to tempt me to check out a new system when there is plenty of other cheap gaming pdfs of things I am interested in. [/QUOTE]

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