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Sweet, I've always wanted to summon a giant purple madness inducing kraken with swirly eyes as a pet...

Awesome new classes. The eidolon for the summoner is just about the coolest weapon/guardian/spy I can think of, and nice HP for a specialized caster.
The witch has very much a fairy tale aspect to it, too many cool ideas to use the witch on (shades of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow comes to mind). Is Baba Yaga and her daughters going to be witches?

Quite frankly, although this announcement sucks as-is, I think the next step for Wizards should be to compile & organize their past publications in conveniently bundled PDFs and sell them themselves. More importantly than getting the larger revenue share, it would create an effective bottleneck for getting D&D PDFs that they could use to (a) digitally mark all sold copies, like Paizo does, (b) create/maintain a cohesive customer base, that they could market whatever they want to, directly, and (c) perhaps incorporate some of that older material in useful digital tools (Who wouldn't want a searchable, indexed database of all past adventures/modules/guidebooks/etc.?).

But I have no idea if WotC actually would do all that. It's just what *I'd* do if I ran the zoo.

See, you'd never make it as a WotC executive. Thoughtful, profit creating ideas just don't fly there. Now, if you had promoted kicking a grandmother in the shins to have the ability to purchase a PDF from an uber top secret location only after they had viable DNA samples, now, that is the type of ideas they want.

<end sarcastic joke... maybe>

Hopefully, Wizards of the Coast will come to terms with this financial hurdle, and return to supporting the retailers of their fine products soon.

I do hope the last statement is in sarcasm, because, in my opinion, when WotC created that game they slapped the D&D name on and called it the 4th edition they lost any aspect of "fine products" they once had. Then again, that is just my opinion. I am sure 4e has its supporters, I for one am not amongst them.

And whilst I do not like 4e, the decision they made to kill PDF sales is extremely stupid and shortsighted. I could at least continue to somewhat support WotC with previous edition purchases, now I can longer even do that.
Good job WotC, you're definately doing your part to help give Hasbro a huge moneysink to give them a break in their corporate taxes. Nothing like an unprofitable business to give you constant losses to help offset the IRS.

Yet another reason why not to support anything by WotC anymore. They must have a lot of kerosene handy, because they continue to burn bridges with their antics. I am angry though I will not be able to purchase PDFs of some of the books I wanted now thanks to their continued business decisions.
Their tactics must have come from Microsoft, because MS did the same thing when the XBox 360 came out (dropped all support for the XBox when the new model came out, even if you had purchased it the day before). Then, they made sure that the previous games you had shelled out tons of money for would not be backwards compatible without an XBox Live subscription so you could download the drivers.
Is it something in the water in Washington state? Or are they just trying to run WotC into the ground as a tax write off for Hasbro? (I'm an accountant, I think of things like that now.) It seems to me they could have just as easily kept support for previous editions going because the huge amount of support still being shown for it, and there would always be writers for new content. After all, car companies don't quit making parts for last years model when the new one comes out. They could have continued to make available the older editions (at least 3.5) and make money on them. Dropping all support for the previous edition and then continuing to kill the sales from previous editions was simply a stupid business move. Let the players decide when a previous edition is no longer valid, because they are your income, and they make their wishes known with money. When something no longer makes money, then, and only then, is it time to put it out to pasture.
BTW thanks Paizo, your stuff is awesome. Your service and goodies you let us players have for free {Beta, guides, etc.} make supporting you worth while.