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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Solvarn" data-source="post: 5377389" data-attributes="member: 59666">Bad analysisI understand the sensitivities on both sides of the software piracy issue. It is really a non-sequitur from a business standpoint. Many of the "statistics" showing an alarming rise in the incidence of software piracy are released by companies or organizations financially vested in there being an increasing incidence of software piracy. It's something that as an innovator and a creator that concerns you; you want to be rewarded for your hardwork and talent, and that is understandable. Like so many other things in life, you do what you can reasonably do about it, and not sweat the rest. From a business standpoint it is business problem, how do you get this customer to purchase your product? Part of that solution is almost certainly making it more difficult to obtain it for free, but fixating on this issue because of its dubious nature and difficulty in attaining accurate measurables is silly and prevents you from seeing the larger opportunities that are there. Part of the process of delighting your customers would be to offer something that people taking the data for free don't get; value in the box, as it were. Tokens, cards, colorful bits, etc, that make the product fun to open. Reduce the cost of the product so that stealing it becomes less attractive as an option. At what point does it makes sense to download a torrent of the PDF? For $13.00 you can pre-order it. A lot of this they're already doing. I know with Gleemax that they had a pretty ambitious plan, I don't know what they are going to do moving forward. I know personally that I will probably be just using character sheets and books for now. I don't know if that plan is off the table or not. I think it sounded pretty cool, but lots of ideas sound pretty cool until you analyze them to see if they are viable. I can tell you how I feel about their recent changes. I like Essentials. I'll buy the books I want because they are a good value. I'm on the fence about DDI. I'll try their product for free to see if I like it, if they offer trials, but unless I get the opportunity to try it for free I might not ever get exposure to it. With the new pricepoint of the Essential line, the value of the Insider to me drops off significantly. I would definitely have paid for the cavalier and hexblade classes to be added to my character builder account though, with the caveat that I can access it anytime in the future at no cost to me.</blockquote>

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