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does the DLC fall into the luxury category for you? For me that is more the Beadle&Grimm or Dwarven Forge end of things.

if things are worth what people are willing to pay for them, then you finally dropped the pretense that the price is justified by being 50-60% of what a printed version would be. Then the price is justified purely by enough people being willing to buy it at that price point. I agree with that...

assuming there is extreme underpricing, which is very much debatable and depends on a lot more than the price of an individual item WotC’s profit margin is around 40%, higher for digital, so if they do not pay enough it is not because they do not charge enough

not sure what you mean by no intrinsic value, either D&D books have that or almost everything that is for sale does not have an intrinsic value… movies, books, concert tickets, … For simplicity the difference between the cost to create a thing and the price it sells at is what is relevant here...

I am sorry, if one dealer offers the same car at three times the price as any other dealer, I’d say they are factually overpriced. This is not all that different yeah, but the digital DLC still costs more per page than the FR book in print. Just because print may be underpriced (and they just...

and none of this has anything to do with the DLCs, they are not subsidizing the char generator. Nor does that take a lot of computing power either

not really, the definition of overpriced is something costing more than it is worth. That doesn’t mean that only things that do not find enough buyers to cover their cost are overpriced. Humans are not very rational actors, that is why the stock market creates huge bubbles every few years

no AI power consumption levels here, just dirt cheap storage. If that is an issue, WotC is more than welcome to offer PDFs instead

I did not say uninteresting, I said overpriced, and at 2 to 3 times what any other publisher charges I do consider that a verifiable fact, not an opinion. Will some people buy them regardless, sure, but that doesn’t make them not overpriced. Pretty sure they will be a success for WotC, they...

yeah, I was not complaining about the 50% of print for the digital version of the FR book though, but of the DLC for which there is no print version to begin with. That it is priced at 50% of a hypothetical printed version instead of relative to the page count of an already expensive digital FR...

yes, but that is also what makes these DLCs highly overpriced

you are always talking about print when I am talking about digital. There is no reason why digital is that expensive other than it cannibalizing print even more if its prices weren’t inflated (ie if the profit margin for both being the same would be determining the digital price)

nor do they have to do lot to keep the files hosted yes, whether this is a success for WotC will depend on how many people buy this. That has no bearing on it being overpriced in comparison to basically all other digital TTRPG products however

quite different actually, servers are basically free, unlike store rent - and WotC is more than welcome to sell me PDFs, if they feel having to host files is such a burden

I see a big difference between a sandwich and a digital product, sandwiches are not essentially free, except for a fixed cost to produce one yes, if it fails WotC was too greedy, the if was always part of this

in print or in other words, because WotC was too greedy. They could easily afford to sell it at a more competitive price. Everyone else manages at much smaller volumes

given that literally any other publisher manages to do so for 50% or less, that just shows how comfortable and complacent WotC can afford to be at that price point I am perfectly fine with this experiment failing. WotC can take away whatever lesson they want

so no one ever makes it to level 20, apart from possibly the player characters, as they are exempt from this rule

it’s the gun, not the gunslinger, isn’t it? How else do they get hurt by a misfire, did they shoot themselves in the foot?

collectively, it is about 100 pages, so about 20% of the two FR books, maybe up to 25%, not sure about exact page counts, and it costs over 2/3s of the two digital books. So not even a good price compared to video games where DLC is notoriously overpriced