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<blockquote data-quote="Koloth" data-source="post: 9895010" data-attributes="member: 6706231">One harsh reality in the US is not everyone has broadband Internet and a high data cap.&nbsp; If something becomes available on-line only, a percent of folks just won't be able to access that something.&nbsp; Other folks with Internet may not want to spend a portion of a limited data quota to access an on-line only resource.&nbsp; It is one thing to be able to download once and have the pdf available locally from that point forward.&nbsp; Can be a problem if that resource has to be loaded into browser cache every time it is needed.On-line only also carries data security issues.&nbsp; A common meme in cyber security circles is &quot;Gee, a day ending in y, another company suffers a data theft.&quot;&nbsp; Followed by questions of how many folks will be offered a year or so of 'data monitoring' as compensation.&nbsp; Except for the all the years of monitoring running concurrently instead of consecutively, I have probably received enough offers of data monitoring to last until 2200.&nbsp; &nbsp; A tell going forward will be if future Organized Play for D&amp;D starts requiring or even just allowing use of on-line only stuff.&nbsp; But all of this are things that will be decided by the accounting staff(or the AI replacements) of Hasbro.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Koloth, post: 9895010, member: 6706231"] One harsh reality in the US is not everyone has broadband Internet and a high data cap. If something becomes available on-line only, a percent of folks just won't be able to access that something. Other folks with Internet may not want to spend a portion of a limited data quota to access an on-line only resource. It is one thing to be able to download once and have the pdf available locally from that point forward. Can be a problem if that resource has to be loaded into browser cache every time it is needed. On-line only also carries data security issues. A common meme in cyber security circles is "Gee, a day ending in y, another company suffers a data theft." Followed by questions of how many folks will be offered a year or so of 'data monitoring' as compensation. Except for the all the years of monitoring running concurrently instead of consecutively, I have probably received enough offers of data monitoring to last until 2200. A tell going forward will be if future Organized Play for D&D starts requiring or even just allowing use of on-line only stuff. But all of this are things that will be decided by the accounting staff(or the AI replacements) of Hasbro. [/QUOTE]

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