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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AWizardInDallas" data-source="post: 3896119" data-attributes="member: 52605">D&D: Insider Tools - will the succeed?I think their online subscription model will ultimately fail for the following reasons:1. Wizards is assuming that most gamers are also computer geeks which isn't the case.  It would be interesting to know what the general percentage is and I wonder if they did any market research before making this move.2. Wizards has a poor track record as far as producing useful software for D&D goes.  Third party companies are better at it.3. Wizards has been away from the publishing business for a while, having outsourced Dungeon and Dragon magzaines to Paizo which turned out to be a good move.  Taking these back in house is a step backward.4. The best content doesn't necessarily come from Wizards.5. As someone already said, Wizards has a short attention span, basically that of a TV executive.6. The navigation on the Wizard's site pretty much stinks as does personalization, which is an indication of how they might dis-organize online content.7. Wizards isn't willing to invest the dollars in server infrastructure and serious enterprise-level development resources it would take to really grab today's very demanding gamers.</blockquote>