DDI for $7.95

[WhatGravitas]

At the moment, $5 works out to approx £2.50, which is pretty amazing. The cost of a pre-packaged sandwich, a pint of up-market beer (in Manchester, not London), a daily bus ticket, etc... Bargain!

Exactly!

Even if I decide to print it out (B/W, at least), it's still pretty cheap - I've paid about 5 quids per magazine before, so it was 10 quids or about 20 dollars per month.

(BTW: Somebody from Manchester? Cool, I'm not alone! )

Cheers, LT.

 

[vagabundo]

I'm actually quite surprised to see people being as keen as they are to pay for the digital product. While it is a comparatively low price compared to Dungeon and Dragon when they were in print, these aren't printed product, only .pdf, and I expect a much lower price for digital product.

I'd actually pay more for a PDF in this instance. Dragon and Dungeon supply me and my player with titbits, I dont want to use the whole mag (in most cases). So for me being able to easily print out and maybe digitally alter some details it a big deal.

And the print mags here were a lot more expensive then 3 euro a month.

 

[Weregrognard]

Less than half the cost of my Netflix account?

More than twice the entertainment value?

Mr. Kool Aid, feel free to break through my firewall. "Oh Yeah!"

 

[Zulithe]

I think it's a great price, no matter how you slice it. Anyone who would complain about the price after this announcement is not likely to ever be pleased anyway. As noted, this is a real steal. And I'm definitely signing up. Provided they announce some sort of upgrade path to the 'full' D&DI subscription that includes all of the tools once those are ready.

I don't want to sub for a full year, only to be told 3 months in that I'd have to subscribe to a different package to get the other tools. Unless the price is identical to the difference.

 

[wedgeski]

I'm a guaranteed subscriber at these rates. Contrary to some other opinions, the stuff coming out of digital Dungeon and Dragon is, I think, much higher quality and frequency than the 3.5 era free stuff, and comparable to Paizo in many respects (too soon to say for sure). The layout and format of the magazines is very nice as well, and the art and general production values are excellent.

There is a question as to what will happen to these rates when the other initiatives come on-line, but this is a complete steal just at the moment. Seems like a little sense is prevailing at Wizards as they struggle to get the DDI online.

 

[delericho]

Not for me.

I can't complain about the price, which is actually quite good. But for me, the killer app was always going to be the Virtual Tabletop. Without that, I'm just not interested, at any price.

 

[thundershot]

Sounds good to me, so long as they don't force me to bundle later to get things I don't want. I could care less about the tabletop and such, and don't wish to have to pay for them.


Chris

 

[Ander00]

Aw, no more free dragon for me.

I have to admit, the price point seems more reasonable, but it's still not for me.


cheers

 

[Heselbine]

I've been one of the biggest 4e fanboys out there so far, but even I'm starting to get cheesed off by this.

"Our current plan is to start charging for subscriptions before we have the client applications ready."

Does this suggest to anyone else that the client applications are even further off than they thought?

"That’s just the way digital game development works …" is a shocking admission from a professional software outfit.

I have a strong feeling of deja vu from all the promises made at the time of 3rd edition about software. How long will Hasbro let money be poured into this?

 

[charlesatan]

I'm actually quite surprised to see people being as keen as they are to pay for the digital product. While it is a comparatively low price compared to Dungeon and Dragon when they were in print, these aren't printed product, only .pdf, and I expect a much lower price for digital product.

I think what you're failing to take into account is that for some people, PDFs are superior to printed products. Print for me is one of the more archaic methods of publishing. That's not to say I don't like print. But PDFs do have advantages over printed products, although that's best left for people to decide which side of the fence they're on. (And it also helps that said PDFs aren't DRM-protected or some other method that counters the advantages of electronic products.)

Mostly though, regardless of price, this seems to be around about the same amount of material we were getting for 3.5 online anyway... For free. More adventure modules than "how to use our splatbook-of-the-month" sure, but I can't honestly say the adventures have been spectacular. Or, more simply... I wouldn't have paid money for them in a store, so buying them online by subscription still seems a bit off to me.

Fair enough. If you don't like the current issues of Dragon/Dungeon, I don't think you'll like what's going to be released in the future.