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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7651163" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I agree, and in fact this is not so different from the old vhs/dvd rental businesses. In some countries I've heard that this is almost disappeared, but where I live it's still a viable business. In fact, when it comes to movies, I have long lost interest in buying DVDs and I only rent movies (well also I go to the cinema and watch some movies from online TV). At some point down the line, I realized that since the vast majority of movies I only watch once, even paying as high as 5e for a rental costs me less than a decent DVD from the discount-bin. </p><p></p><p>OTOH I would not subscribe to a movie rental service such as netflix or similar, in principle (for what I've said before) and in practice (because it's just so typical of subscription-based services to offer a selection of inferior products). I can't say that DDI is an inferior product of course, I have no idea... but in other entertainment areas, maybe Spotify seems to be the only service with quality service IMHO.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, definitely! Although I'm not really a big spender myself (got probably maybe ~30 RPG books or so, all 3ed) my comment was only related to subscriptions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7651163, member: 1465"] I agree, and in fact this is not so different from the old vhs/dvd rental businesses. In some countries I've heard that this is almost disappeared, but where I live it's still a viable business. In fact, when it comes to movies, I have long lost interest in buying DVDs and I only rent movies (well also I go to the cinema and watch some movies from online TV). At some point down the line, I realized that since the vast majority of movies I only watch once, even paying as high as 5e for a rental costs me less than a decent DVD from the discount-bin. OTOH I would not subscribe to a movie rental service such as netflix or similar, in principle (for what I've said before) and in practice (because it's just so typical of subscription-based services to offer a selection of inferior products). I can't say that DDI is an inferior product of course, I have no idea... but in other entertainment areas, maybe Spotify seems to be the only service with quality service IMHO. Yes, definitely! Although I'm not really a big spender myself (got probably maybe ~30 RPG books or so, all 3ed) my comment was only related to subscriptions. [/QUOTE]
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