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

[I'm A Banana]

Or, in this case, the idea that buy the book gives one free and unlimited access to every single thing WotC puts online. "I paid for my book, I want all the supplementary material, which WotC pays people to write and post, for free!"

I'm not saying WotC's doing the right thing, the wrong thing or, for that matter, anything; nobody has any real information. But the sheer sense of false entitlement is just astounding to me.

It's not really that I want all the supplementary material for free. It's that I want them to continue giving for free what they already have been giving for free.

As I've said a bunch of times, the new stuff looks like it'd be worth the price. To take away something that we've already been getting is, however, a whole other kettle of fish.

 

[delericho]

They will probably still have free content, just more content that will be for subscribers.

Wizards.com will probably continue as it is, with maybe a little less content, but the pay side will have a lot more, updated daily.

Maybe. To date though, the only information from Wizards that I have on this is the stuff quoted on the front page of this site, and that includes the Previews and Web Enhancements in the list of features in the pay-for site. If that is the case, I consider it a mistake.

I'm also disappointed to see "Design & Development" in the list of pay-for features, but that's probably the right place for it - the reason I'm disappointed is that I particularly enjoy that column. Sadly, there's not enough listed in the feature set to persuade me to pay, so I'll be losing access.

I would pay for the Digital Gametable alone, provided the software were up to standard... except for that 3 games a month limit. If they had a pay-as-you-go option, or even increased the price and removed the limit, I would pay. But I won't pay where that limit is in place as a matter of principle. I don't know how much I would actually use it, but I would definately want the option of using it whenever I wanted as often as I wanted.

And who exactly thought 3 games a month was a good idea, anyway? If I were adding an online game to my schedule, I would be looking to play on a weekly basis. I can schedule regular weekly appointments easily enough; anything less frequent than that, or anything that doesn't fall on the same day of the week each time it does occur, is much harder. 3 times a month is precisely the wrong frequency.