Forked Thread: DDI Changes - Your reaction

[JoeGKushner]

Mark me down in the m'eh column.

If the amount of original content shrinks due to these previews... then it goes from m'eh to "might be time to cancel."

 

[Nightson]

We knew there was a price increase coming and lucky us it's a very small increase.

 

[CubeKnight]

Hmmmm. If I'm currently an Outsider, can I subscribe for a year + extend for a year for 2 years at the current price?

 

[doctorhook]

I'm actually shocked that some people claim to be actually likely to cancel their subscription over this. Really? Really?

I can only assume they misunderstand what's happening to the subscription. It's not going away. You're not paying more for it now. It's not taking content away from what you're already paying for. What it is doing is giving you notice that soon (nearly two months from now) the subscription price will be increasing for everyone subscribing or extending after that date, and that if you want to sign up for an additional year beyond whatever you've already paid for, the next 45 days are the best time to do it. They also noted that they're planning upon releasing new D&DI Tools, upping the page-count of Dragon and Dungeon magazines, and giving exclusive, playable previews of next year's releases beginning a full nine months in advance of release, and that this preview content will not be included in the newly-increased page count of the magazines.

Mark me down in the m'eh column.

If the amount of original content shrinks due to these previews... then it goes from m'eh to "might be time to cancel."

They have explicitly said that the PH3 previews won't be taking up space in the magazines nor detracting from the page counts of them, AFAIK. I've also heard rumour that each preview will be accompanied by a companion article in the magazines, which will build upon the material presented in the playable previews*.

(*It's important to remember that these aren't playtests; they're previews of completed material.)

 

[darkwing]

Hmmmm. If I'm currently an Outsider, can I subscribe for a year + extend for a year for 2 years at the current price?

There doesn't seem to be anything restricting it!

 

[chaotix42]

Extending my subscription to a full year before the price increase hits. Thanks for the advance heads-up WotC!

 

[CubeKnight]

There doesn't seem to be anything restricting it!

Yahoo! And it's not like they don't deserve it. They've really made some good stuff.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I've already got a year subscription and I am going to extend it.

 

[JoeGKushner]

They have explicitly said that the PH3 previews won't be taking up space in the magazines nor detracting from the page counts of them, AFAIK. I've also heard rumour that each preview will be accompanied by a companion article in the magazines, which will build upon the material presented in the playable previews*.

(*It's important to remember that these aren't playtests; they're previews of completed material.)

What WoTC says and what they do are two vastly different animals. I'm not going to go on a list following that (after all, someone will quickly point out that they never PROMISED that), but let's start with say, Exemplars of Evil, Elder Evils and other tail end 3.5 products. Where are the DDI conversions? Etc... etc... etc...

 

[Ulrick]

At first I was like "hmmmm...."

But now I'm like "meh."

I have a subscription to DDI. But I just don't use it enough to justify paying more. So I'm letting my subscription lapse.