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<blockquote data-quote="Waterbizkit" data-source="post: 7720235" data-attributes="member: 6802604"><p>So with regards to people taking issue with having to purchase content they "already own" I'd like to use a bit of an analogy, yeah... hold onto your butts... because analogies are always glorious. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Do you folks game? I don't mean tabletop gaming, that's a given, I mean video games. I do, been an avid PC games for a long, long time. Now if I buy a title through my Steam account, and oh boy do I ever buy a lot on Steam, I get that title available to me on my computer. Straight forward so far. Now, say that same title is available on the Xbox One. I don't get to turn around, fire up my son's Xbone, and suddenly get to fire up the same game. I can't contact the developer and ask them for a free copy for the Xbox because "Hey, I already bought this on my PC." That's not how it works. If I want the same game on multiple platforms, I've got to buy it for each platform individually.</p><p></p><p>So, look at DDB as a different platform for the game you already bought. See? Analogies are awful. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> Seriously though, I think the general premise is the same. Sort of. Can you do everything DDB does for you on your own with a pen, some paper and your books? Of course you can! It'll be time consuming, potentially tedious, but you can do it. All the information is the same. But DDB will probably do it all faster and better, but <em>that's</em> what you're paying for. Same way if I want to play Shadow of Mordor by turning on an Xbone instead of my beastly desktop... I'll need to pay for that convenience. </p><p></p><p>I'm not necessarily advocating the service by the way. I'm just saying I don't see a problem with the business model because I've been living with it forever with video games. As for myself and my group, I'm going to wait and see how things look after it's seen full release for a while and the dust has settled. If it looks good, sure, why not? If it doesn't tingle my giblets I can ignore it, no skin off my nose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Waterbizkit, post: 7720235, member: 6802604"] So with regards to people taking issue with having to purchase content they "already own" I'd like to use a bit of an analogy, yeah... hold onto your butts... because analogies are always glorious. ;) Do you folks game? I don't mean tabletop gaming, that's a given, I mean video games. I do, been an avid PC games for a long, long time. Now if I buy a title through my Steam account, and oh boy do I ever buy a lot on Steam, I get that title available to me on my computer. Straight forward so far. Now, say that same title is available on the Xbox One. I don't get to turn around, fire up my son's Xbone, and suddenly get to fire up the same game. I can't contact the developer and ask them for a free copy for the Xbox because "Hey, I already bought this on my PC." That's not how it works. If I want the same game on multiple platforms, I've got to buy it for each platform individually. So, look at DDB as a different platform for the game you already bought. See? Analogies are awful. :p Seriously though, I think the general premise is the same. Sort of. Can you do everything DDB does for you on your own with a pen, some paper and your books? Of course you can! It'll be time consuming, potentially tedious, but you can do it. All the information is the same. But DDB will probably do it all faster and better, but [i]that's[/i] what you're paying for. Same way if I want to play Shadow of Mordor by turning on an Xbone instead of my beastly desktop... I'll need to pay for that convenience. I'm not necessarily advocating the service by the way. I'm just saying I don't see a problem with the business model because I've been living with it forever with video games. As for myself and my group, I'm going to wait and see how things look after it's seen full release for a while and the dust has settled. If it looks good, sure, why not? If it doesn't tingle my giblets I can ignore it, no skin off my nose. [/QUOTE]
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