Dragon & Dungeon--Any Free Content?

Dude. Seriously. I bought the magazines, back then. 8€ a piece. Now, i share an account with a fellow DM for DDI and get Compendium / Dungeon / Dragon / Charbuilder / Tools / Previews. 24€ a year. Its a steal, pure and simple.
I´ve even considered writing to Wotc saying "raise the price for DDI - seriously, this is too cheap!"


:confused: ... It's such a steal that I'm paying half the actual price for it by splitting the costs with a friend... but I think WotC should raise the price?? Wuh?

Hey, here's an idea...instead of WotC raising the price... why don't you and your friend each get a seperate account, then you can pay more and everybody's happy.
 

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Admittedly, I'm not really into 4e. But the amount of free material that's coming out for Dragon and Dungeon does not impress me, particularly when most of the material now in Dragon and Dungeon is material they gave away as recently as a year ago.
You can't possibly believe this. The articles currently running in Dungeon and Dragon are at least as good, if not better, than comparable articles running in the mags during the Paizo era. You think they were giving that level of stuff away for free on the website? No, maybe the odd side-trek or 10-page adventure, not the 50-page adventures that are currently on offer.

If you're not into 4e that's cool, but you shouldn't be surprised that the D&D website hasn't got much to give you in that case.
 

Cute. Too bad a news site charging for news has nothing to do with e-magazines charging for the content contained in the e-magazine, while giving away it's news for free.
Its quite the same actually.

In any case the comic was appropriate.

The free stuff available from insider is really just junk columns and junk mail.

The things given from the previous charge-less issues were simply given as a free trial for advertisement.
 

I don't know. I'm kind of bummed about the WOTC site. I realize that there is some stuff that is free, but it actually is kind of hard to find, and mostly relating to minatures or other things. Certainly the magazines shouldn't be free, and soon as I get some time and money on my hands, I plan on buying a subscription, but it seems like there isn't that much marketing information on the site, I mean part of the benefit of their website is that it is advertising. It's suppose to convince me to buy books, and the free stuff I want is mainly details about what those books contain so that I can get pumped into buying them. Now it seems like that information is less. So I really less informed over all about what there coming out with and why I should buy it. The net effect basically is, I've stopped going to the site, which I think has lessened my ardor for buying books. Anyway, obviously a balance needs to be maintained between exclusives and ads, and I like the fact that they are making you pay for the stuff, because that generally means that stuff is going to be higher quality, but I think they've gone in the wrong direction. Mainly, because I used to hop on there site once per day to check for updates and now I don't. One thing that I think should be free was their design and developement articles (someone can correct if I'm wrong and these are still free, but I haven't seen them). It was the editorials on how WOTC did game design which were the biggest draw for me buying the books. I liken it to an aha moment. Like when I first read about their concept of minions on their website. In my head, I was like aha! that's a good idea. That fullfills a obvious need I've always had in my game. Now I want more and shall buy their books. Since the design editorials are now in dungeon magazine, I get bummed out. If they could only make those design articles free, then I would be a happy camper. Everything else I'll indeed shell money for, but those articles were basically advertisements for me anyway since they were my biggest draw to buying the books. Now that I don't have access to them, I tend to buy less.

This is a very good post!

Since I do not subscribe to D&D insider I know LESS about the marketing than I ever did before (I am not currently purchasing anymore D&D products, but if I had the info I might once in a while if I thought I could convert it or use it in a 3.5 campaign). WOTC site is pretty useless for me now, except for the alumni article which is SOMETIMES interesting.
 

I´ve even considered writing to Wotc saying "raise the price for DDI - seriously, this is too cheap!"

I get so much enjoyment from Marvel comics, and I really considered telling JOe Quesada at NYCC that comics should be $4.99 instead of $3.99. I also love traveling so much that I think the oil companies should continue raising the price of gasoline.

sorry...

that was a rather ridiculous statement. Just buy your own subscription.
 

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