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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Badjak" data-source="post: 4658350" data-attributes="member: 58103"><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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