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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5427940" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yup, if a book like CC: Heroes of Sword and Spell was going to be AT BEST a marginal success and probably had a pretty high risk of being a money loser then it seems MUCH smarter to just turn it into DDI content and keep getting people in there. I mean even at a few bucks a month it doesn't take long to make more off that than off a book that might barely make a profit at all and doesn't provide any kind of strategic benefit. Plus it is a LOT easier to put content on DDI, it can be in a somewhat less polished form and if you need to make some minor updates to it later on it isn't yet another big fat errata document to a printed book that people will complain about. Instead it is just a "Oh, BTW we changed feats X, Y, and Z so they work better, you might want to check that out". Same goes for the MME book. They can just put the items into Compendium and release the fluffy parts on DDI and if it turns out that these 20 items should be common instead of uncommon then it gets done once in one place and it rolls out to CB and Compendium instantly and everyone can be happy.A year from now they can always take the most popular parts of all that stuff and release some sort of Annual or whatever with the now nice shiny polished version that never needs to be updated again. Or they can go ahead and sell it in PDF form, maybe as a full DDI compilation for $30 for all the people that don't subscribe. They end up with a lot of options down the road, but the least possible up-front cost.</blockquote>

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