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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5350667" data-attributes="member: 7006">But here's the thing, Mercurius... I don't think WotC wants you to buy the books.  What they want is for you to subscribe to DDI.Publishing a hardcover Revised Player's Handbook might be wonderful for those small amounts of people who can only play the game if they have a solid dead-tree book in front of them (but who doesn't want to have the old one and a stack of printer paper with the errata printed out).  But there aren't enough of those people to justify the printing, shipping, and shelf space cost to give them what they want.  As far as I think WotC probably feels... like Spengler says, 'Print is dead.'The monthly subscription fee is a much better (for them) economic model than printing books and then hoping against hope that people buy them.  Now if they HAVE to do it... they're doing it a more economical way by going the softcover route.  They probably wish they didn't have to do it at all... but if they had to, this was cheaper for them to do.  And on top of that... by spreading things out the way they are... it's like they are trying to DARE you to switch to DDI.  "Yeah, fine, we'll print revisions to some of the stuff in the Player's Handbook I if you really want it... but we can't include everything, and wouldn't you be happier getting a DDI subscription where you CAN get everything, PLUS a character builder, monster building, two magazines and an online database of rules?  Wouldn't that be a better idea?  You sure you don't want to do that?"</blockquote>

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