D&D Insider - Pay tomorrow for what you get today for free?

[Aaron L]

Thanks Mark. He was a good doggy.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I have it on good authority that Windows Vista will include SwiftKickInTheButt Technology if you get the Extra Deluxe Super Professional Edition with a Cherry On Top.

Take THAT, Mac users!

 

[2WS-Steve]

I have it on good authority that Windows Vista will include SwiftKickInTheButt Technology if you get the Extra Deluxe Super Professional Edition with a Cherry On Top.

Take THAT, Mac users!

No, no, no, -- Windows users are hard-core. It'll include SwiftKickInTheGroin Technology.

 

[MojoGM]

To refute that statement I refer you to the extremely creative folks at boingboing.net and other similar websites. These folks are all extremely creative, and believe in the Creative Commons Copyright, which allows for great advances to be given free.

Ok, but that is the exception, not the rule. Wizards is a business, and if you want content for free you'll get what you paid for. If they produce good content, I'll pay for it, and I'd rather have it in a subscription web service than purchase book after book.

No, you can't do away with paper altogether, because there will always be people like myself who get a headache from reading too much online, and those who just prefer to have paper books to electronic files. I fit that category too.

I sort of agree with you there, but this device does it in such a way that it is the same as reading on paper, it's not back-lit so you can read it in full daylight. Borders Books has a sample out, I was quite impressed with it and hope to own it by the end of the year.

Paper isn't going away any time soon (and I should hope not, as I work for a publisher) but it will eventually. Or at least become less used. It's already happening, on a small scale. Newspapers days are numbered...

Free online material does not mean it is creatively limited or capped in any way. Those sorts of limits are only supplied by the creators themselves.

Who would like to be paid...because if they are not being paid it is a hobby. I'd like to see game designers do it for a job, not a hobby.

 

[MojoGM]

Well, I'm a Mac user since 1986, and I would decline such an offer. As would every other Mac user I know.

/M

I'm a newly converted MAC user...did you say a "swift" kick in the butt? Wow, PC's only give you a moderate speed kick in the butt. I'll take it! Is it available on MAC.COM?

Ok, to be fair I use MAC and PC, but my MAC is for video editing primarily...PCs still have the edge when it comes to games.

 

[Vigilance]

Was this a mistake? Do you actually think $20/month to be a reasonable number?

~Qualidar~

For daily content? As well as the ability to play online and find "pickup games" allowing me to get in an extra game a week or something?

Yes, I do.

Assuming it's well done.

I mean seriously... let's look at what people pay for things online. I might pay 10 dollars for a book and read it once, then throw it away.

Or 1.99 for an hour long episode of law and order I'm going to watch once.

In each case Im probably paying about $2 per hour of entertainment (most mass market fantasy novels last me in the 5-6 hour range).

So if I think I'll use this new site's services 20 hours a month- then that's about the same isn't it?

 

[mhacdebhandia]

PCs have the whole damn blade when it comes to gaming.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I might pay 10 dollars for a book and read it once, then throw it away.

Without addressing your larger point . . . what the Hell?

 

[Vigilance]

Without addressing your larger point . . . what the Hell?

Ok fine you got me... I keep them. But generally speaking I do not read books multiple times, which was my point- obviously when I DO buy a book like Post Captain that I can read forever, then I've gotten a better deal.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

That's really strange. Why buy books at all if you're not going to re-read them? Better to join a library - the fact that I want to be able to re-read my books at any time is precisely why I don't bother with libraries.