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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmartkdr2" data-source="post: 8852535" data-attributes="member: 7017304">Best guess: because we're used to spending very little, or at least needing to spend very little. A PHB is $30 and you can get a set of dice for about $10 (and if you're coming from an older edition you already have them.)Sure, most of us have spent more but they were all optional and even the whole set of player-facing books is only a couple hundred over eight years.Well, most don't. Most players never touch loot boxes, or only buy one. But the players who buy them regularly spend hundreds or even thousands. They're called whales because they're big spenders... and they're the main source of revenue in mobile games. That's how it's been, and people don't like change.I think a cheap subscription that gets you 90% of the player-facing content would do well enough. It would drive a lot of players off the platform to paper-only, but they weren't going to spend much anyways. If they stick to skins and other mechanics irrelevant stuff as add-ons for players it should work (and I think it's likely they will - they do know how the game works.)Honestly if they can make good, easy-to-use digital Adventure Paths and modules those could be the real income driver for the game going forward.</blockquote>