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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MThibault" data-source="post: 557668" data-attributes="member: 7971">Most group licenses are designed to address the needs of official corporations.  At least in my experience as a librarian dealing with print journals and the like.  The licenses very clearly define who and who is not a part of your organization for the purpose of sharing/copying the product in question.This is problematic when you are dealing with unofficial organizations.  How do you define a "regular gaming group"?  Unless you are distributing through some sort of organized play system, you can`t really pin it down.Secondly, official organizations have a vested interest in both avoiding litigation and continuing to receive the products.  If it is important enough to pay for at all, it is adding value to the organization.  If more than one person needs the product (you are looking for a group deal, after all) then there is even more value being added to your organization.  If your subscription or purchase account is cut off, then the organization will no longer have access to the product it apparently needs.  Therefore Harvard Publishing Group or the American Medical Association can offer a group license without worrying too much about corporations not playing by the rules.With unofficial groups, there is a leap of faith that the individuals will play by the rules.  Given that they are purchasing a group license in the first place, you are probably on fairly safe ground.  The people who do this are the honest ones.Generally these licenses are priced based on the number of users, with the discount increasing with the number of copies being distributed within the organization.  I don`t think that there would be a need for a gaming-group license that covers more than 10 people so you don`t really need a big sliding scale.  This also reduces the need to worry about customers lying about the size of their group to get into a more beneficial category.  Either the bulk rate or individual rate is more beneficial and the individuals and group can decide.If a maximum of two players in a group typically purchase any given product, then offering a group license for the price of three full-price purchases will probably increase sales without disproportionately shaving off the top end.  Market research is really needed, but if 90% of your sales are copy number 1 or copy number 2 in the gaming group, then the 5% that are copy number 3 will still be purchased at the same price, and copies 4+ will be getting a deal.  Where you would make your extra money would be by shifting purchases from the copy number 1 or 2 group to the group rate.  Aside from the PHB and DMG, I have never seen more than 2 copies of any given publication at a table anyway.  So I`m guessing that you would gain a lot more than you would lose through this sort of arrangement.Cheers</blockquote>

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