Magazine Survey from WotC

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Exactly. Unless it's printed, it is, for all intents and purposes, the same magazine to me.


The last CB was more functional and people were barely willing to pay for it at all. With this at least I challenge you to say that people will pay more for more. The average customer, no matter how good the deal they're given, will always demand more for less. The new CB could have been twice as good as the old one, and people would still complain it is too expensive.

People are a diverse bunch.

I wouldn't complain at its current price if it delivered the same as the old. It doesn't, that's why I complain.

People will always complain when they get less then before.

If people are truly willing to pay more for better quality content or software, then they need to TELL Wizards that, instead of only telling them they want more for less.

Wizards, if you are listening, I want better quality content and better quality software. I am fine if the price stays as is or even increases for higher quality. [/prepares e-mail]

 

[Balesir]

Wizards, if you are listening, I want better quality content and better quality software. I am fine if the price stays as is or even increases for higher quality.

I agree. As an example, I said elsewhere that Wizards probably should have charged a "start up" fee to download the old CB and qualify for ongoing updates; I would be prepared to pay such a (reasonable) fee retrospectively in order to get recommenced support for offline character builder capability.

 

[Mirtek]

The average customer, no matter how good the deal they're given, will always demand more for less.

And the average company, no matter the margin, will always prefer to charge more for less. So they keep each other in check and meet somewhere in the middle.

instead of only telling them they want more for less.

That depends on how many of their customers tell them that and follow through with what they tell them.

Then wizards can either offer them more for less and see if that reaches a new balance or maybe even simply pull out of D&D.

As a customer there are way more entertainment companies wanting my money than I can ever buy from. If I tell WotC that I am unhappy with their current offer and want more for less, they can either try to offer me that or I buy something else instead of D&D. If I am unimportant that's no problem for WotC, if I are part of a too large percentage of their customers doing this, then they need to find a solution.