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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5208190" data-attributes="member: 71571">No, of course not, because that's a LOT harder to pirate than PDFs which require Copy/Paste, and can be done with literally two keystrokes and an upload.Hell I don't even think you need to use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V.  That might be too much effort. AND THAT IS WHY PDFS DO NOT CREATE NEW SALES It could, but it's not as effective as, say, having a copy of the book sitting there beside the Mensa and mind puzzle books at my local bookstore, inviting curiousity.I can then open it, look through it, figure out what it is.Hey, look at that, I opened the book, and read bits of it, and let the book sell me.The only way to get a PDF to do that is.... DUN DUN DUUUUUUN... Pirating it.  There -are- digital versions of the books.You just have to steal them.The consumer decided that.If they were a forward thinking company with a software development division willing to cut their teeth on an entirely new format you mean.Things that are not free;  What you just suggested.Making software for an old format (PC) is nowhere NEAR as difficult as making software for a new format.It has nothing to do with 'forward thinking at all.'If the -industry- were forward thinking, then you'd have -every- company having digital interractive offerings and tools that make the play of the game simpler and more convenient.  You can't single out the ONE company that actually DOES, and can afford to do so, and say they are not forward thinking because they don't have PDFs, but another company that is NOT the market leader does have PDFs, but those interactive tools don't count as forward.Your argument is self-contradictory!  No company in the industry has iPad apps.Nor is that forward thinking; no one has iPads!Seriously, you're selling GAMES here, not futuristic apps that revolutionize the business world, or that save companies money.  You're asking a company to -spend money- to develop software (and they aren't even a software company, damn it) for a platform that has a market penetration of 'sweet <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> all.'Seriously, you seem to think D&D's target demographic is the hip technology loving iPad swinging Steve Jobs worshiping crowd.  And calling the use of such expensive technology the way of the future, and Wizards needs to be on it.Dude.  Seriously.  PDFs are not the wave of the future for a larger company in the business of making money.    And accusing the only company that gives non-PDF digital offerings of not giving digital offerings enough is so irrational that it's worth commenting on.When Atlas, White Wolf, Paizo, Green Ronin, Fantasy Flight, or any other gaming company in this business offers something online, free or for pay, other than a blog and a forum, then (and only then) can rational talk occur about WoTC not being 'the wave of the future.'However, as it stands, the facts are clear:  The only company doing digital to any reasonable degree -other than pdfs- is Wizards.  All other companies are not.  They're the big kids in the yard.  They're making money doing so, and they have every right to.Don't blame -Wizards- because the -consumers- decided to pirate rather than buy.  Don't blame -Wizards- because the -consumers- don't support a product line enough for Wizards to support it.  Don't blame -Wizards- because they're not jumping into the foray again, into a climate of piracy and theft that is EXACTLY THE SAME AS ONE YEAR AGO.That's not -Wizard's- fault.  That's the -consumers'-.  Wizards is making business decisions based on what the consumers have decided.  Not on what one kid on a forum has decided they'd prefer.Bitching about having no Game Table yet?  Sure, I can stand behind that.  You might have an argument there.But honestly?  PDFs are bad for business.  OGL is now bad for business.  That's the reason they're not done any more.  And no business does things that are bad for business.</blockquote>

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