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An idea for WotC - how to transition to "5E"
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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5738180" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Sure, if you assume people are logical... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>My <em>guess</em> is that, just after the announcement, DDI would see a spike in one-month subscriptions as people jump in, download everything, and jump out. (Out of fear that when 5e hits the 4e stuff will go away.)</p><p></p><p>I would expect to see the numbers of other new subscriptions drop fairly sharply, as people wait and see what the new edition brings. And I would expect a lot of people to cancel their auto-renew, allowing their subs to lapse, again so they can wait and see what the new edition brings.</p><p></p><p>I would expect WotC to plan for these things. Heck, if they're smart, they could even offer some incentive for people to stay. ("The shiny new DDI will cost more, but if you maintain your subscription you get the first year at the lower cost!" or "we've got these new features, but they'll only be available during the transition period," or something.)</p><p></p><p>To be honest, I <em>wouldn't</em> expect people to cancel en masse and demand refunds. But I'm not quite certain enough to definitively rule out that worst-case scenario. And because of that risk (small as it is), I would expect WotC to stick with the model of the short edition transition.</p><p></p><p>But that's a guess. It may, of course, be completely wrong. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5738180, member: 22424"] Sure, if you assume people are logical... :) My [i]guess[/i] is that, just after the announcement, DDI would see a spike in one-month subscriptions as people jump in, download everything, and jump out. (Out of fear that when 5e hits the 4e stuff will go away.) I would expect to see the numbers of other new subscriptions drop fairly sharply, as people wait and see what the new edition brings. And I would expect a lot of people to cancel their auto-renew, allowing their subs to lapse, again so they can wait and see what the new edition brings. I would expect WotC to plan for these things. Heck, if they're smart, they could even offer some incentive for people to stay. ("The shiny new DDI will cost more, but if you maintain your subscription you get the first year at the lower cost!" or "we've got these new features, but they'll only be available during the transition period," or something.) To be honest, I [i]wouldn't[/i] expect people to cancel en masse and demand refunds. But I'm not quite certain enough to definitively rule out that worst-case scenario. And because of that risk (small as it is), I would expect WotC to stick with the model of the short edition transition. But that's a guess. It may, of course, be completely wrong. :) [/QUOTE]
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