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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 4146746" data-attributes="member: 2804">Let me put this into perspective. Of the 10 people I play D&amp;D with in 3 different monthly games, half of them once played WoW. Now NONE of them play WoW. They just aren't interested in it anymore. However, they ALL played tabletop D&amp;D before WoW, during WoW, and they still play it after WoW.D&amp;D and WoW are NOT direct competitors. The experience is just too different. Now are they competitors for your entertainment dollar? Sure. But in the same way that seeing a movie, or buying a video game are.As far as the value of DDI goes, that is purely subjective. I personally feel its a fantastic value for the money. I subscribed to Dragon and Dungeon when they were paper magazines, would you argue that those were not worth the money?So prior to DDI, I got both Dragon and Dungeon delivered to my mailbox once a month. the cost for both mags was about $15 a month.With DDI, I will now get:DragonDungeonThe game tableThe character creation softwareThe character designerand the Rules Database (which includes ALL WotC crunch!)So sure, I feel that some value has been lost because I now have to settle for PDFs intead of printed magazines, but that loss of value is more than made up for by the Rules Database alone. Not to mention having the game table and the character creation software.If I sign up for a year, I get all this for only $10 a month. At this point, I consider myself to be getting MORE for my money than when I had my paper subscriptions to Dragon and Dungeon. I view the value of DDI on these merits. Comparing it to WoW is meaningless as far as I am concerned because I have no interest in WoW.WoW could cost $1 a month, and I still wouldn't pay for it, nor consider it a better value for my money than DDI.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 4146746, member: 2804"] Let me put this into perspective. Of the 10 people I play D&D with in 3 different monthly games, half of them once played WoW. Now NONE of them play WoW. They just aren't interested in it anymore. However, they ALL played tabletop D&D before WoW, during WoW, and they still play it after WoW. D&D and WoW are NOT direct competitors. The experience is just too different. Now are they competitors for your entertainment dollar? Sure. But in the same way that seeing a movie, or buying a video game are. As far as the value of DDI goes, that is purely subjective. I personally feel its a fantastic value for the money. I subscribed to Dragon and Dungeon when they were paper magazines, would you argue that those were not worth the money? So prior to DDI, I got both Dragon and Dungeon delivered to my mailbox once a month. the cost for both mags was about $15 a month. With DDI, I will now get: Dragon Dungeon The game table The character creation software The character designer and the Rules Database (which includes ALL WotC crunch!) So sure, I feel that some value has been lost because I now have to settle for PDFs intead of printed magazines, but that loss of value is more than made up for by the Rules Database alone. Not to mention having the game table and the character creation software. If I sign up for a year, I get all this for only $10 a month. At this point, I consider myself to be getting MORE for my money than when I had my paper subscriptions to Dragon and Dungeon. I view the value of DDI on these merits. Comparing it to WoW is meaningless as far as I am concerned because I have no interest in WoW. WoW could cost $1 a month, and I still wouldn't pay for it, nor consider it a better value for my money than DDI. [/QUOTE]

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