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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3188751" data-attributes="member: 9254">None of the other publishers have a license to use the other WotC materials so you are comparing market price apples to imaginary oranges.&nbsp;&nbsp; The only things other pubishers can provide are the R/SRD, which PCGen includes for free.&nbsp; Just for comparison's sake, let's compare to the CMP &quot;base&quot; bundle.&nbsp; $7 if I recall correctly.&nbsp; So....$7+Free Software vs. $35-$45 for data+software.&nbsp; &nbsp; But for arguement's sake, what if CMP has that as a loss-leader price?&nbsp; DMGenie has the R/SRD which is a subset of the DMG, PHB, MM, and ExPsHb.&nbsp; So at $6/book at CMP that comes out to $24.&nbsp; DMGenie paid programmers to write the software (unlike CMP) but CMP is having to pay WotC royalties (unlike DMGenie) so the costs are probably close (assuming CMP's actual cost ~$6 and the data being about 25% of the actual cost of the DMGenie package)&nbsp; As far as the value goes, you said it takes a couple of hours per book plus some tweaking to get it DMGenied.&nbsp; There are 48 3.5 books at CMP.&nbsp; At 3 hours a book that's 144 hours.&nbsp; After bundling, you would only have to value your time at $2/hour to justify that effort.&nbsp; If I had been DMGenie, I'd have written a LST file converter.&nbsp; Sure, it means indirectly supporting another publisher but what the hey, DMGenie is being indirectly supported by WotC.&nbsp; LST files have no DRM, no security, and have a moderately well documented format that is completely plain text.&nbsp; The data may be closed content but the format is open.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 3188751, member: 9254"] None of the other publishers have a license to use the other WotC materials so you are comparing market price apples to imaginary oranges. The only things other pubishers can provide are the R/SRD, which PCGen includes for free. Just for comparison's sake, let's compare to the CMP "base" bundle. $7 if I recall correctly. So....$7+Free Software vs. $35-$45 for data+software. But for arguement's sake, what if CMP has that as a loss-leader price? DMGenie has the R/SRD which is a subset of the DMG, PHB, MM, and ExPsHb. So at $6/book at CMP that comes out to $24. DMGenie paid programmers to write the software (unlike CMP) but CMP is having to pay WotC royalties (unlike DMGenie) so the costs are probably close (assuming CMP's actual cost ~$6 and the data being about 25% of the actual cost of the DMGenie package) As far as the value goes, you said it takes a couple of hours per book plus some tweaking to get it DMGenied. There are 48 3.5 books at CMP. At 3 hours a book that's 144 hours. After bundling, you would only have to value your time at $2/hour to justify that effort. If I had been DMGenie, I'd have written a LST file converter. Sure, it means indirectly supporting another publisher but what the hey, DMGenie is being indirectly supported by WotC. LST files have no DRM, no security, and have a moderately well documented format that is completely plain text. The data may be closed content but the format is open. [/QUOTE]

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