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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthan" data-source="post: 4085466" data-attributes="member: 20005">The game table is everything to me.  If you were to search out all my posts, you would find me before the announcement of 4E asking for this kind of product and after the announcement being thrilled about it.  That's my bias up front.  I want this product.  I want to get a game with my old buddies and play D&D online.That said there is one main thing that concerns me about what I'm hearing.  I don't know if it's enough to keep me from buying in, but it's there.Paying for 3D minis feels odd to me and I think that my struggle with it is that I'm paying a subscription to the product.  I feel that if I'm paying X dollars a month, that should warrant new content.  I'm torn here.  I know there is a lot of content (Dragon and Dungeon) that will be generated as part of that subscription, but, call it entitlement if you want, I feel if I'm paying a monthly fee, I should have access to all the bells and whistles of the service.I don't know what price point I would be comfortable with buying 3D minis.  It's different than buying a map pack for Halo or new content for Oblivion.  In those cases, the content I buy goes to a game I own and that I can continue to play without any further fees.  With 3D minis, my purchase is only good as long as I continue my subscription to DDI.  That decreases the value greatly in my eyes.  And what if I let my subscription lapse and then renew later, do I have to rebuy the minis?  That drives the value down even further.The only scenario that I feel that I might buy minis is if they came in cheaply priced, large bundles.  I'm just not sure what ratio (# of minis to price) that would be to make me a customer.  And that's where they're going to have to sell me.It just frustrates me that the one aspect of the DDI that I wanted the most is the one with the feature that irks me the most.</blockquote>

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