Are you buying a DDI subscription?

[lexoanvil]

i did not think i would at first until all the tools were ready but the ecology and playtest sections have been great to me so far so i got 3 months sub until i get a new job. the gnoll one in particular i thought was great even the warforged one was great, my players were thrilled when i told them the MM races they picked just got a bunch of new options. the genasi one helped make my sword mage one of my favorite characters ive made in a long time.
even the excerts they keep adding (while they are free) have been great for helping me decide on getting a hard copy.

 

[Truth Seeker]

In 6 months, time will tell, if the DDI will hold it's own, or falter.

 

[Hussar]

Not playing 4e, so, nope, no DDI for me at this time.

We'll see about later.

 

[dm4hire]

There is actualy quite a lot in the magazines here for example is a list of the crunch for the first $20 they gave us free:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/239640-dragon-crunch-index.html#post4506565

As for the best of book I will have to see what articles they put in it.

Phaezen

Dragon alone in print format was over 90 pages and toward the end it was over 100. Now they're saying you get over 60 pages between the two of them for the same price a yearly subscription cost for the print combined. How is that better? Granted you don't have the advertisements, but there really weren't that many ads in the magazines. The "Best of" is listed at 160 pages. If half that 60+ pages a month is Dungeon then you are effectively looking at close to everything printed this year minus the misc articles, probably all the adventures.

Dragon seems to contain a lot of stuff which should have gone into the books but they decided to keep it out for some reason other than space as there is a lot of white space in my books, annoying the heck out of me when I read through them. Then there's the beta testing of classes that they seem bent on putting in Dragon to help get a feel for what they will be coming out with, that, wait for it....You have to pay for the final result anyway! Um, no. WotC needs to take a clue from Paizo in that regard and not charge for beta stuff. You're effectively paying them to beta test!

I'd mention some of the other complaints I have about WotC and everything related to the web, but a lot of people have already captured it on this thread and others.

 

[dm4hire]

An interesting observation from Critical Hits:

* Yes, and I play 4E D&D (35%, 50 Votes)
* No, and I play 4E D&D (34%, 48 Votes)
* Yes, and I don't play 4E D&D (1%, 1 Votes)
* No, and I don't play 4E D&D (16%, 22 Votes)
* Unsure / Not decided (13%, 19 Votes)
* What is D&D Insider? (1%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 141

If you add it up that comes out to 35% will buy it, 50% won't, 13% unsure, and one guy who has no clue about it.

So far the "No" vote seems to be winning all over.

 

[davethegame]

An interesting observation from Critical Hits:


If you add it up that comes out to 35% will buy it, 50% won't, 13% unsure, and one guy who has no clue about it.

So far the "No" vote seems to be winning all over.

You could link the poll you're referring to
Inq. of the Week: D&D Insider? | Critical Hits

The results are actually better than I thought, roughly 50% adoption rate among 4e players. I'm not surprised at all that non-4e players aren't going to subscribe.

 

[Admiral Caine]

I subcribed. I'm not playing 4E right now, but plan on running it when one of my 3.5 games end. The magazine content, in my opinion, has been better than the first two retail modules.

Maybe I'm an optimist, but I feel good about the decision. Its two magazines for roughly $2.50 (each) a month for a year.. plus some webtools. If you liked the free issues so far, that's not a bad deal at all. People sell a lot worse PDFs online for the same amount.

 

[Scribble]

An interesting observation from Critical Hits:


If you add it up that comes out to 35% will buy it, 50% won't, 13% unsure, and one guy who has no clue about it.

So far the "No" vote seems to be winning all over.

I wonder what a similar poll about other various parts of the game throughout the editions would reveal?

Ever hear of the 80/20 rule?

It's basically the idea that 20% of your clients contribute 80% of your profit.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Dragon alone in print format was over 90 pages and toward the end it was over 100. Now they're saying you get over 60 pages between the two of them for the same price a yearly subscription cost for the print combined. How is that better? Granted you don't have the advertisements, but there really weren't that many ads in the magazines.

Actually, Dragon 367 was 75 pages, which seems about the same as Paizo's Dragon minus the ad pages. (I looked through Dragon #345, #353, & #355, picked at random.) Paizo's came out slightly ahead, but only by a couple of pages.

 

[El Mahdi]

I'm not surprised at all that non-4e players aren't going to subscribe.

Except there isn't a logical correlation between not playing 4E and not buying a subscription. I don't play 4E, and I'm not buying a subscription, however, I'm not buying a subscription because it's lacking features that I want (keyed & unkeyed maps, etc.). My decision has absolutely nothing to do with the base system. I've downloaded every single page of free content, and I'm actually using, or planning on using some of it. Good adventures are good no matter what the system. This just isn't an accurate or logical assumption.

Now I'm sure there are some who aren't buying a sub just because it's based on 4E, but making a blanket statement that non-4E players aren't going to subscribe isn't accurate. People make decisions based on lots of factors, as can be seen in the posts on this thread. The reasons people are or aren't buying a subscription are much more varied than any blanket statement or assumption.