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<blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5432389" data-attributes="member: 86468">A handful of people on Enworld wanting to pay around $20 for old edition materials POD is not a successful business strategy. Just slapping poor quality PDFs for POD wouldn't gain any gamer cred, because then WotC would then be bashed for being lazy and providing a poor quality product. Attempting to appeal to an extremely tiny market is fiscal suicide without some serious mark-ups - to which the tiny market that exists is unwilling to pay. WotC would recieve more complaints, and people who are unhappy now will still be unhappy. Disgruntled fandoms don't suddenly become happy fandoms just because the company gives them what they want. They just find new things to complain about.&nbsp;I've looked into POD. I have education, experiance, and have done the research to do the work that would be have to be done. And I can honestly say that it is not cost effective to pay me to do this work for the potential return. And that's just the guy doing the gruntwork. That doesn't account for advertising costs, management paychecks, marketing research, and the potential for brand confusion.&nbsp;No offense, but many of the responses have been from the standpoint of &quot;I want this, therefore they should make it&quot; not &quot;is this a sound business decision to commit resources to?&quot;&nbsp;It's like expecting Microsoft to still offer technical support Windows 95. The amount of people still using it does not justify the cost of continual support, therefore it is bad business decision - especially at the tail end of a worldwide recession.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glade Riven, post: 5432389, member: 86468"] A handful of people on Enworld wanting to pay around $20 for old edition materials POD is not a successful business strategy. Just slapping poor quality PDFs for POD wouldn't gain any gamer cred, because then WotC would then be bashed for being lazy and providing a poor quality product. Attempting to appeal to an extremely tiny market is fiscal suicide without some serious mark-ups - to which the tiny market that exists is unwilling to pay. WotC would recieve more complaints, and [I]people who are unhappy now will still be unhappy. [/I]Disgruntled fandoms don't suddenly become happy fandoms just because the company gives them what they want. They just find new things to complain about. I've looked into POD. I have education, experiance, and have done the research to do the work that would be have to be done. And I can honestly say that it is [I]not cost effective to pay me to do this work for the potential return.[/I] And that's just the guy doing the gruntwork. That doesn't account for advertising costs, management paychecks, marketing research, and the potential for brand confusion. No offense, but many of the responses have been from the standpoint of "I want this, therefore they should make it" not "is this a sound business decision to commit resources to?" It's like expecting Microsoft to still offer technical support Windows 95. The amount of people still using it does not justify the cost of continual support, therefore it is bad business decision - especially at the tail end of a worldwide recession. [/QUOTE]

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