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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 5645790" data-attributes="member: 16077">That boat has sailed - I don't think they'll ever regain those customers.I agree - this isn't what the community wants - but again - part of that is probably tied to the fact that they alienated a bunch of people who are now happily playing Pathfinder or previous editions of D&D.The other factor is - when they were selling pdf products, the consumer knew that they'd have eternal access to it so long as they archived it and/or printed it out.  The idea of having limited access (so long as you keep subscribing, we'll give you the privilege of looking at our shiny-shiny retread that we previously sold to you to keep) will most likely only appeal to people who already are committed DDI subscribers.I'm envisioning WotC thinking that supplying subscription access to old stuff is going to want to draw in non-4e customers, but I think what will really happen is that only those already playing 4e will access the stuff and then try and adapt it for use with their 4e campaigns.Perhaps I'm again being overly pessimistic about WotC's business sense conflicting with reality (the previous time being my comments about their plans for providing pdfs of 4e products via activation codes in the backs of hardcovers - and Rouse's thinking that I called him a liar - even though history has shown my prediction at the time to be closer to the truth than not), but my prediction this time is that providing subscription-based access to older editions won't appreciably grow their customer base.</blockquote>

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