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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6099324" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I think its reasonable to assume DDI cannibalizes SOME 4e splat book sales. Some of my players for instance have DDI but have purchased few, if any, splatbooks (though I suspect if PDFs had been available 4 years ago they could have sold quite a few of those). In general you would think that a web service would produce superior income, but its hard to say for sure. In the long run it probably could. Whether DDI has offset the loss in splat sales is hard to say, though presumably this would be a major market condition for WotC to figure out. Anyway, I personally bought most of the 4e splat books. The very few I haven't got were either books I didn't really need, like the race books, or setting books, or a couple that I just never happened to get around to picking up a copy of, like Psionic Power (only one person has played a PHB3 class and for the small amount we'd use it I can use DDI for this book). I must admit though, if there are PDFs and DDI/Compendium in the future I'll be hard pressed to buy physical books again. I just don't use most of them a lot on an everyday basis. There is no scheduled termination. Mike actually stated at one time when this concern was first raised (right after DDN was announced) that his opinion was 4e DDI should be continued or DDN support should just be added, anyway in some fashion that 4e tools would still exist. In any case we have at least 18 months presumably until the release of DDN, there's not going to be a discontinuation before that.</blockquote>

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