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Message: <blockquote data-quote="king_ghidorah" data-source="post: 3711173" data-attributes="member: 18404">I'm not sure how reading and listening to what WotC is planning -- including statements that the DI is completely optional -- could lead to the conclusion that unless you pay for the DI you will have an incomplete system. Certainly this seems no more true than saying that you would have an incomplete copy of version 3.5 without buying every issue of Dragon, picking up every new rules expansion and downloading all supplemental information from the WotC web site. And, of course, it wasn't true.And since you will be able to play D&D without paying monthly fees, and if you do subscribe to the DI you will still have a playable offline game after ending your subscription, and you will be able to play without a computer (since that's what the playtesters have been doing all along!), then I can't see a reasonable comparison to MMORPG business models.I will point out that some gaming companies (like necromancer games) have already had bonus material to download and unlock with keys in their products. Some magazines and newspapers have additional paid online content. That seems pretty clearly what is going on, added value for added money -- all of which is optional, premium, and possible of questionable value compared to the original product.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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