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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5003135" data-attributes="member: 1">Well, it wasn't unexpected.&nbsp; If the system enables you to do something, then a certain percentage will do it.&nbsp; &nbsp;There's not a lot of point in my whining about it; my job is to figure out the price structure which results in the highest profit for EN World.&nbsp; Someone signing up, downloading and then cancelling is a net loss (it costs me money to provide the downloads); so I need to work out how to prevent that.&nbsp;Some people have suggested a limit to the number of downloads one can make per month so that they'll have to continue subscribing if they plan to download *everything*.&nbsp;&nbsp; That seems a bit draconian to me (and is hard to implement).&nbsp;The &quot;you're welcome to cancel, but you'll lose the $3 price&quot; is a softer approach and might help with people who are planning to sign up and cancel periodically to get as much as they can for as little as possible (and who can blame them?), but it would have to be pretty high to actually be a discouragement to someone who wants to pay $3 every six months or whatever.&nbsp;How does WotC handle it?&nbsp; Or are they able to simply factor in that people will do that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 5003135, member: 1"] Well, it wasn't unexpected. If the system [I]enables[/I] you to do something, then a certain percentage[I] will[/I] do it. There's not a lot of point in my whining about it; my job is to figure out the price structure which results in the highest profit for EN World. Someone signing up, downloading and then cancelling is a net loss (it costs me money to provide the downloads); so I need to work out how to prevent that. Some people have suggested a limit to the number of downloads one can make per month so that they'll have to continue subscribing if they plan to download *everything*. That seems a bit draconian to me (and is hard to implement). The "you're welcome to cancel, but you'll lose the $3 price" is a softer approach and might help with people who are planning to sign up and cancel periodically to get as much as they can for as little as possible (and who can blame them?), but it would have to be pretty high to actually be a discouragement to someone who wants to pay $3 every six months or whatever. How does WotC handle it? Or are they able to simply factor in that people will do that? [/QUOTE]

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