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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 5646180" data-attributes="member: 40522">Subscription services are great for certain things, but not for others. To me, the entire purpose of renting content is so that I can check it out less expensively than purchasing it outright.I have a Netflix account so that I can watch something that I'm only going to watch once, or perhaps someone recommends to me--stuff like the new Star Trek movie, Zombie Strippers, something like that. I'd rather pay $8.00 to find out that those movies are terrible than pay approximately $20 to purchase a physical copy. When you talk about good movies that I want to watch repeatedly--Black Hawk Down, the Fountain, various Hitchcock classics--I purchase a copy. The subscription model, in this case, is a method for me to vet quality at a reasonable price.In the case of Netflix, it's only a better value than Redbox when you watch at least eight movies a month (since Redbox is $1.00 per rental). Furthermore, it's only a comparative value if you go to the theatre at least once per month (assuming that movie tickets are still around $10 in your neck of the woods), or if you purchase more than one movie every two months at $20 for your format of choice (DVD/Bluray/download/whatever).Maybe we have a difference of opinion there, but I don't see value in content that I'm never going to use. "Value" is a relative concept. Even if a Dungeons & Dragons Insider account provided a thousand pages of content every month, I'd never use that much material. Every time new content gets posted, are you able to use every single element in a game that you're currently involved in?Unfortunately, the reality at the moment for people that ask themselves "Is my life going to be  more enjoyable as a subscriber?" The answer is not always "yes." Maybe, maybe in the future, once different subscription methods and services have matured. Definitely not at the moment.To me, it's just not worth it to get access to content that I may or may not be able to use and a character builder that doesn't let me add my own content or even set the layout. I'm just not impressed with the content and its value, regardless of the delivery method. It seems that people are becoming more fixated on the medium instead of the content.</blockquote>

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