Fifth Element
Legend
Are you actually surprised that other people make buying decisions differently criteria than you do? That other people value some things differently than you do? That surprises you?
DDI for $7.95
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TerraDave
5ever, or until 2024
$: Yes, this is about them getting some money in, and not having the pretty successfull intro of the books get completely wiped out by DDI cost overruns. And thats ok.
Compendium: Not many people have mentioned this. Right now this is fun to play around with--its good if you want to see all ranger powers modified by wisdom, or all magic items that resist poison, stuff like that--but could be a major ap if it is expanded and updated.
Free? Setting aside the print magazines (there is no question mistakes where made...) Online Dungeon and Dragon have more, a lot more, then the free stuff the site used to have. And I also suspect they are on a learning curve, quality should continue to increase. Especially if there are $s attached.
Compendium: Not many people have mentioned this. Right now this is fun to play around with--its good if you want to see all ranger powers modified by wisdom, or all magic items that resist poison, stuff like that--but could be a major ap if it is expanded and updated.
Free? Setting aside the print magazines (there is no question mistakes where made...) Online Dungeon and Dragon have more, a lot more, then the free stuff the site used to have. And I also suspect they are on a learning curve, quality should continue to increase. Especially if there are $s attached.
Fifth Element
Legend
Who would pay more than print? Probably very few - but no one's suggesting that.
Who would pay what they're charging? Those that value PDFs enough to pay the price. It's pretty simple. Some people like the benefits that PDFs give. Others don't. Those that do will pay for them.
As someone who preordered Neverwinter Nights 2, yes that is the way professional game outfits do it. It was not until about the 4th patch I could run the game, with out it crashing. So much so I stopped playing and even last year when compeleting it, it still crashed alot in the cutscenes near the finale.
In general, I am pretty happy with the price for Dragon and Dungeon as I would never touch a paper copy of Dungeon, since it would be so much wase paper as I would never get to run the adventures therein. Now I can keep the ones I woudl run and leave the rest on WoTC's servers. The same with Dragon, if they publish a class or something else I really like.
Vancian Magic
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No, not so much that anyone does... But simply that there's an overwhelming amount of posts that seem to think it is really a great idea, and more specifically that it's a really great idea when wizards are still offering precious little compared to what they promised we would receive.
Fifth Element
Legend
But that's just a matter of degree; you dodged my point. Most people value things differently than you do (than most other people do, in fact), so it should not be surprising that a large number of people would pay for something that you would not.
Merlin the Tuna
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You're shocked that bugfixing takes time?
Buh?
The remark wasn't made in the context of "Hey, buy our broken junk;" all that was said was "It works, if you bribe it with animal sacrifice and are careful not to do anything that might upset it." That's exactly how software dev works. (Though admittedly, shoving buggy games out the door is how gaming dev works entirely too frequently.)
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Great price point for the two "magazines". If you get 1 adventure a month you can use, everything else is gravy at that price. I'm glad they've unbundled the two products, content and tools. While I vastly prefer a print product, $5 a month for this much content seems very reasonable to me.
And, we can disagree if you want, but this is vastly more content than they used to give away. Comparing the content online for the last year or so, is not appropriate. That was content they always said would be free because they were abandoning 3.x support and had a bunch of 3.x material. I think this is vastly more content than we got for free.
And, we can disagree if you want, but this is vastly more content than they used to give away. Comparing the content online for the last year or so, is not appropriate. That was content they always said would be free because they were abandoning 3.x support and had a bunch of 3.x material. I think this is vastly more content than we got for free.
I need the game table before it becomes worth any money for me. That is what I've been hoping for. Well, not entirely true, my real hope is that they release map packs for all their dungeon adventures that plug into the game table so I don't have to make them. That would be value.
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