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I’ve taken a deep breath, taken into account a few things people mentioned last year, looked back at this from a slightly more amused lens, and, well. Thoughts.

I googled “WOTC pdf sales” to see if anything had happened in the world of WotC allowing sales of old editions again (I’d love to have a PDF of d20 Modern core! Alas, you can only get WotC gamebooks in PDF via illegal methods now). Apparently, not much since April of last year.

Looking back at the discussions, I’ve had the following thoughts:
1. Backup, backup, backup your files, because you never know what company might get teh stupids. If it’s connected to Hasbro, backup about 20 times.
2. WOTC leaving online gamebook downloads (they do sell ebook novels, oddly enough) was a good thing for the rest of us, because things eased up for game ebook buyers after they took their marbles and went home.
3. That being said, in my looks back, WotC still looks pretty darn stupid. Those of us who played 1st, 2nd, or 3rd edition – well, at least 1st and 2nd – as well as other TSR games (like, say, Gamma World) – were no threat to WotC 4th ed sales. Even if they did it to drive 3rd ed players to 4th ed, it failed miserably. (If they did it because some people pirated their 4th ed books, well, that’s cutting off your nose to spite your face….)
4. Then again, WotC decided to pull “Tiny Adventures” off of Facebook way too soon. Even I don’t like what I’ve seen of 4th ed and I was prepared to give it a try thanks to that game. (I still have issues with the MMORPGing of D&D I see in 4th ed, but had it stuck around longer, you might have found me buying 4th ed.)
5. I still want more of my games to be available via legal pdf. Not only d20 modern and other OOP WotC/TSR titles, but Darksword Adventures, and I’m sure there are others. (One, the Doctor Who RPG Timelord, is/was available for a long time online.)
6. I think this might be a Hasbro thing, looking back, because they seem to have a knack for pulling things that make no sense. I also went to buy the windows version of “Game of LIFE” a few months ago (that I’d bought for Mac a year or two prior) and… nowhere to be found! Imagine that….

Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.