Puzzling....

[dragonhealer00]

I keep track of role play news...or rather rpg bloggers commentary from time to time. After strolling through the links of the rpg bloggers network I discovered that the lot of them were abuzz with some thing strange...

www.icv2.com/articles/news/14690.html

Which caused this...
www.icv2.com/articles/news/14693.html

And finally....
thegamerdome.com/wotc

Comments

[danarchy84]

What the fuck?

Okay, I actually read those first two press releases last night and thought it was retarded. I was actually planning on ranting about it here. But that last one...that almost seems like satire. I can't believe they'd say shit like that. If that is true, I'm never buying another god damn WotC product from them ever again.

And sharing a book with friends is "piracy" now? What the god damn hell? I've read dozens and dozens of accounts of people recounting how they got into the game way back in the day, most of them from TSR/WotC game designers, and a lot of them related how they or a friend got the old boxed set and a group of them would always play just using that one set. What a bunch of retarded hypocrites. And saying that they completely ended piracy of their products is just dumb. I bet I could go on to one of the many sites I've pirated stuff from before and find their entire library there.

[dragonhealer00]

XD

[ichiban_victory]

I always thought that sharing was a good trait. More and more companies want to penalize us for something our parents try so hard to encourage in us... And really, if it hadn't been for friends loaning me their resource books back when I first got into the game, there's no way I'd have ever really gotten into the game. After just seeing the books, I knew I wanted them for myself! So really, WotC should be encouraging us to share more! :P

[dragonhealer00]

Heh....actually...as Mark noticed...it was a bit of an april fools gag that I passed on.
Though the lawsuit on the individuals who did the pirating IS real enough.

I just thought I'd pull a belated prank....!

:D

[ichiban_victory]

Oh trust me, I saw Mark's comments and actually read them as well. Still, the PDF thing isn't very cool if you ask me. I've not bought any, but it's always nice to have as an option...

[dragonhealer00]

That much does impede their sales considerably.
And there's the issue with those who paid, but did not receive their pdf's due to the cease and desist order WotC put out.
WotC's plan is apparently is to set up their own digital sales operation that they can monitor more closely. Of course...the problem with that, is that they have little more than a skeleton crew for the online stuff...since they wisely laid off a number of folk just prior to all this increased work load.
I'm glad the last pdf files I purchased were a while ago...

[danarchy84]

Yeah, I also heard they weren't going to be selling anything from older editions. I'm really glad I bought the couple 2nd edition PDFs that I got when I did. Those things were impossible to find on the piracy channels. :P

[dragonhealer00]

*laughs hard and long...*

No doubt...!