{"id":2357,"date":"2009-04-08T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/insert-foot-in-mouth-then-shoot\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:57:20","slug":"insert-foot-in-mouth-then-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/insert-foot-in-mouth-then-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Insert foot in mouth, then shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NERD ALERT &#8211; skip this post if you don&#8217;t give a crap about RPGs<\/p>\n<p>A while back, <lj user=\"mordicai\"> and I had a back-and-forth about RPG PDF vs. hard copies.  I complained that WOTC ripped people poff by overpricing their PDF&#8217;s.  Looks like they have now <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/04\/08\/1324213\">completely banned the sale of PDF<\/a>s, citing piracy as their main reason for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>I find this pretty hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>I had the 4E books two weeks before you could buy a hard copy.  The PDF&#8217;s are why I canceled my pre-orders.  They had printers marks on them &#8211; they were not post-sale copies, they were clearly leaked from the printer\/publisher, or someone with access to pre-bound copy.  They say they are going to sue file-sharers.  I&#8217;m sure that will recover their lost sales dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Digital assets for my RPG material is a must-have.  Period.  If you eliminate my legitimate distribution options, where am I going to turn?<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m not the only one who feels this way.  I wonder how much _more_ business WOTC will lose, as a result of this move, considering they had fairly appreciable sales of legitimate PDFs through several of their until-recently-partner distribution bushinesses.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad I walked away from them after 3.5.  I can only hope this boosts sales of <a href=\"http:\/\/paizo.com\/pathfinderRPG\">Pathfinder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fc24.deviantart.com\/fs28\/i\/2008\/143\/0\/5\/Drunk_Dragon_by_zimchar.jpg\" width = \"350\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NERD ALERT &#8211; skip this post if you don&#8217;t give a crap about RPGs A while back, and I had a back-and-forth about RPG PDF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-amused","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}