Zalbar The Mad
First Post
And people are still free to share the ideas for nothing if they wish to do so. Personally I'm not seeing the issue.
Exactly.
And people are still free to share the ideas for nothing if they wish to do so. Personally I'm not seeing the issue.
I'm not a fan. It is a money grab that may have long term negative impacts for the RPG community. There are a lot of people out there that will refuse to look at a site that has a paywall involved, even if there are products on the site that are free. Others will only go after free stuff. That reduces the free exchange of ideas.
Exactly my thoughts as well. I do a lot of PWYW and free stuff, but it's for this very reason why in the future I will not be putting it on DMs Guild any longer, but at DTRPG instead and just use the SRD.
Internet marketing is fairly basic. You give a small product for free in exchange for the user's subscription on your newsletter. You then send an email to the people that grabbed your freebees every time you have a new product. That's what RPGNow/DriveThruRPG does. In the DM's Guild, all your products seem to be labelled DM's Guild.
I personally have a hard time figuring out how to use the DM's Guild as part of a long-term business development strategy. It might be interesting now that the DM's Guild and the Adventurer's League are married. It's going to depend on how much extra traffic this generates. And even then, the professional quality products would only be there to redirect traffic to your website (like Gauntlet of Spiragos).
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll know now to keep an eye on DTRPG looking for good 5E products.
More likely, the systems will improve.As more people get trolled in the same manner, the site will most likely crumble.