Forked Thread: DDI Subscribers: Are you satisfied with your subscription?

[kmdietri]

Forked from: DDI Subscribers: Are you satisfied with your subscription?

And the cost for a year's subscription is saving me gads of money in books I don't want, and magazines that take up shelf space (and are harder to search through for relevant info).

So far this has been our group's experience too.

Our overall spending on RPG's has gone down dramatically.

Has this been your group's experience?

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I would say so, I am now just gonna buy books I think (unless it is something I really really like) that has stuff that wouldn't be in DDI (like rules). It also has allowed me to get what I want from books I wouldn't have bought anyways so stuff like monsters from adventure supplements.

So not only is it saving me money but giving me stuff I normally would have to buy but wouldn't.

 

[Kirnon_Bhale]

Looks like I am the only one to have voted that it is making me spend more.

I love the info that I get from insider but the problem is that I love owning the hardbacks. So the fact that I have the info for the books then tempts me to buy the hardbacks so I am spending more then I would have done previously.

 

[Starsunder]

I still spend a ton on physical books because I love the dead tree format. DDI is awesome, but I tend to absorb the info easier when im laying in bed reading through a book.

 

[Glyfair]

I do spend less, but not because of the DDI. Mostly it is because I have elected to go with 4E, and WotC has made sure that I don't have too many options to spend on 3rd party books (in fact, my WotC purchases have been slightly down because of this).

 

[Lord Mhoram]

I bought dragon every month, and dungeon every couple. So that money is just paying for DDI. I still buy as many books as I ever did. I mostly get DDI for the mags. I don't use most of the other tools, although I do look things up on the compendium from time to time.

I use third party info and books, and that isn't in the online tools, so I don't use them for a lot.

 

[garyh]

I buy a lot of books, just like I did before my annual DDI sub. But I do enjoy knowing they're supported in the Character Builder, Compendium, etc., so that I can easily use info from them electronically. Makes it much easier for me to use the material in game having the electronic version, too.

 

[Shroomy]

I still buy the WoTC 4e releases. I see the DDI as a supplement to, not a replacement for, the other D&D products.

 

[catsclaw227]

I put spend less, for now... I haven't bought P1 or P2 adventures, nor have I bought as much 3PP stuff but these are more because of the economic situation, not DDI.

(I am also running SoW right now, so I am not rushed to buy all the adventures yet. ....yet.... because I am a sad, sad, RPG addict.)

 

[Festivus]

I put spend less, for now... I haven't bought P1 or P2 adventures, nor have I bought as much 3PP stuff but these are more because of the economic situation, not DDI.

(I am also running SoW right now, so I am not rushed to buy all the adventures yet. ....yet.... because I am a sad, sad, RPG addict.)

I spend about the same as I used to. I skip over books I don't have need for, and the adventures. I bought H1 but nothing further, I don't see the need for them in my 4E gaming (which is almost exclusively RPGA LFR). I but the player option books and the ones that interest me (open grave is my favorite 4E book at the moment).