The misbegotten waif thread a/k/a The Fray V2

[Scott DeWar]

there there, HM. It is oooo Kay. It was only a night terror. It did not happen.

this accout hacked by big brother. We are watching .. .. .. ..

 

[renau1g]

re: D&D. Worst case, Hasbro would sell the line or spin it off. They'd try to get the most money the could for it.

Thinking about it more, my gut tells me that WotC is making money hand over fist with the online DDI offering and the steady stream of income (like WoW has) is far better than making a product you "hope" will sell (as in creating books) as ou have minimal risk with the first one, the second one you're stuck with huge printing costs, overhead, warehousing, distribution costs, etc.

So, I guess I think they're going to move more and more to an online distribution model, all the crunch heavy stuff will be on DDI, integrated into the CB and the VTT.

Paizo does some great stuff on their AP side, but I really don't find the rules different enough to actually want to buy fully into PF. I'll still buy their modules as I love reading them, but I've got more than enough RPG stuff to keep me happy for years (and by then my boys will hopefully be ready and I can reintroduce stuff to them)

 

[Scott DeWar]

uh, count me confusiated here.

DDI, integrated into the CB and the VTT.

in a word: HUH?

 

[Dragonwriter]

I had a horrible thought reading that post.

I thought of a world without D&D

And I was sad.

HM

That's why we buy hardback books and back up our pdf files.

Seriously, if you take good care of your rulebooks, they'll last practically forever.

And as renau1g pointed out, their online stuff seems to have been doing well. And there's still DDO generating licensing revenue and the new Neverwinter game coming out... They've still got quite a bit on their plate.
Of course, none of it really matters to me. I haven't switched to 4E and I don't plan to. I'm still buying stuff from 3rd-party publishers and Amazon for my 3.x stuff.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Or they maybe read the MM 3 in-official errata thread in the ATT and now want to include it in the DC errata file before releasing it...

but I want something now, at least an explanation.

I think this is it.

Just approved the proofs and made the corrections for M&M3. Go, printer, go! #HM 3:47 PM Jan 10th via Echofon

 

[Relique du Madde]

Thinking about it more, my gut tells me that WotC is making money hand over fist with the online DDI offering and the steady stream of income (like WoW has) is far better than making a product you "hope" will sell (as in creating books) as ou have minimal risk with the first one, the second one you're stuck with huge printing costs, overhead, warehousing, distribution costs, etc.

So, I guess I think they're going to move more and more to an online distribution model, all the crunch heavy stuff will be on DDI, integrated into the CB and the VTT.

That would make sense.

in a word: HUH?

CB = Character Builder
VTT = Virtual Table Top

Thing is, programming wize that shouldn't be hard to do if they built their system correctly.

 

[renau1g]

Thing is, programming wize that shouldn't be hard to do if they built their system correctly.

That's a big if based on their rather substandard demonstrated programming skills/foresight to date.

Wow...you know things are down if I'm trashing WotC.....

 

[Scott DeWar]

I think it is quite refreshing to see you come to the realization I saw a long time ago. *sly grin* I wonder what is Leif thinking about this? and Industry gothica?

 

[Relique du Madde]

This definately won't make [MENTION=59043]Walking Dad[/MENTION] happy since thats another thing GR put out before DCA errata. One thing I don't get is why wasn't that included that in MM3e?

 

[Walking Dad]

I already downloaded it. But it wasn't so unexpected and I actually like backwards compatibility stuff to be separate. But maybe they will include it in the MM3 print version.