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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4672551" data-attributes="member: 1003">Pardon?  Did that make sense when you typed it? Because it doesn't really parse when I read it. Once I "pay" for something it's no longer "free", IMO. Do you feel differently somehow?Right now I'm considering paying $56, since I know I'll want the PHB2 rules, as well as the Arcane and Divine Power books. I might even renew for the next year depending on what rules previews are out in Feb '10.This isn't a money issue. Even while (temporarily) unemployed I can afford the $5/month. I just have had to reinstall purchased software (like MS Office) often enough that I like having backup measures in case of computer failure. Bad HDD sectors and crappy OS problems happen more often then I care to admit. I've also seen plenty of companies go out of business or suddenly decide one day to stop supporting a product long before I was done using the product. It's an unhappy, glass-half-empty way of looking at things, but I see this as "common sense preparedness".  I mean, c'mon people. If the CB had been established in 2004 using 3.x rules, do you think it would still support a 3.x option? It might, but the fact is probably not (no more than Dragon Magazine). Wizards would want to have moved on. But how many of you would still want to make 3.x characters occasionally?If (as a paying subscriber) WotC allowed me to download the "current ruleset" (whatever that means on a given day) as a ZIP file at any particular time so that I would point the demo installer at that file instead of WotC's server (or really any other solution that gets me the security I'm looking for) then I'd be happy as a clam and sign up today.</blockquote>

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