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[Dark Psion]

Anyone having problems with the audio in the You Tube videos? I turned my volume all the way up and it still sounded like the mics were across the room from the people speaking. And no it's not my computer, when I clicked on another video, the minis on my desk started moving around it was so loud.

And yes I know they have some on their GenCon page, but all I ever see with Quicktime is a big Q with a ?.

I think Quicktime is a cross classed skill for my computer.

 

[graywulfe]

Sorry, you guys can disagree with it, but its how people think.

Lets say you give me 5 things for $40, and I'm happy. Great.

Now give me 10 things for $40, but I don't want 5 of them. Now I'm unhappy. I feel like I got $20 worth of stuff, and was forced to pay extra for things I don't want. You ruined the deal.

This is how consumer expectations work. There's tons of ways you've seen these things happen. When a company announces that a product will be released in June, and it is, you're happy. When they announce it will be released in May, but they run a month behind and give it to you in June, you're unhappy. Even though you got the same thing!

The way you offer products crafts people's expectations about the products you offer. I think that including with every book the option to spend extra money to use the book in a particular way makes people feel like you're charging them for the book they already own. Even though previously they weren't able to use the book in that way at all, so really you're offering them something extra for extra money, you've shaped their expectations in such a way that they expect more for the same money.

As for including home brew in online play, they can't include all types of homebrew. If they did, you wouldn't need access codes at all. You could just enter in a real book as an alleged "homebrew" entry.

Are you stating your opinion, or attempting to say what other people will feel?

Continuing the car analogy from elsewhere, If I buy a car and decide that I don't need/want the backseat, then the dealer should rip it out and charge me less??? Sounds a little ridiculous to me.

Ranger_X

 

[graywulfe]

Not required, no, of course not. I'm not required to put gas in my car either.

LOL, silly analogy, sorry. You kinda get my meaning, though? I'm still waiting to see if the digital additions to books are completely unnecessary fluff or a chapter that might have nice to have in the book...

Honestly, I don't really get your meaning, or rather I think your example goes too far. Gas is Required for the proper functioning of an automobile. Its more like saying just because you're car has a cd player, doesn't mean you need put a CD in it. Of course, all the paranoid reactions Could be correct and the DI extras Could be Really important to proper game play, we will have to wait and see I guess.

Ranger_X

 

[graywulfe]

Honestly, I don't really get your meaning, or rather I think your example goes too far. Gas is Required for the proper functioning of an automobile. Its more like saying just because you're car has a cd player, doesn't mean you need put a CD in it. Of course, all the paranoid reactions Could be correct and the DI extras Could be Really important to proper game play, we will have to wait and see I guess.

Ranger_X

D'oh I just noticed I'm using my moniker from a different messageboard to sign off here and several other places in the forum. must go to bed get sleep. gaah

Graywulfe
aka Ranger_X

 

[Cadfan]

Are you stating your opinion, or attempting to say what other people will feel?

Continuing the car analogy from elsewhere, If I buy a car and decide that I don't need/want the backseat, then the dealer should rip it out and charge me less??? Sounds a little ridiculous to me.

A better comparison would be, you want to buy a two door car. The dealer says, no, I only sell four door cars, here's the price. You would then feel like you got charged for more car then you wanted.

If you offer someone 10 things for $10, but they only want 5 of those things, they will immediately start wanting to pay you only $5 for those 5 things. Its already happening- if you browse this forum, you'll see people saying that they are worried they'll end up being charged for more stuff on the DI than they really want.

 

[Glyfair]

If you offer someone 10 things for $10, but they only want 5 of those things, they will immediately start wanting to pay you only $5 for those 5 things. Its already happening- if you browse this forum, you'll see people saying that they are worried they'll end up being charged for more stuff on the DI than they really want.

There is a way to deal with that. Release the 10 things in two groups, each group for $10. Somewhere down the line combine them. Of course, this costs us more, but some feel more satisfied.