Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6539729" data-attributes="member: 22424">I generally concur on both these points. Unfortunately, the more time that passes the less confident I am that we'll see them back in any form - and I started from a position of doubting they'd return from the hiatus. (I didn't doubt WotC's intentions to bring them back, but there's always a gap between intention and execution.)The big issue, as I see it, is that you need a certain critical mass of subscribers to make something like this work. I don't think individual issue sales from dndclassics would do it. And while the 4e DDI did have the numbers, the truth is that lots of people subscribed for lots of different reasons - some wanted the mags, some wanted the tools, some required everything, and for some it was just inertia - they'd subscribed and never bothered to unsubscribe.But a new subscription service will therefore have problems, because at present there aren't any 5e tools. So will there be enough new subscribers to justify having a couple of people working full time on just the mags? Especially when they could be working on other, more valuable, things?(Forgot to say: while they can set this up as a continuation of the 4e DDI, and get to the required subscriber base that way, the 4e DDI surely must be gradually bleeding subscribers by now - heading downwards towards a point where only the remaining 4e fans (who won't be interested in 5e mags anyway) and the 'inertia' subscribers are left. The longer they go before resuming the mags, the more of the rest they'll lose, and so the harder it will be to build it back up.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6539729, member: 22424"] I generally concur on both these points. Unfortunately, the more time that passes the less confident I am that we'll see them back in any form - and I [i]started[/i] from a position of doubting they'd return from the hiatus. (I didn't doubt WotC's intentions to bring them back, but there's always a gap between intention and execution.) The big issue, as I see it, is that you need a certain critical mass of subscribers to make something like this work. I don't think individual issue sales from dndclassics would do it. And while the 4e DDI did have the numbers, the truth is that lots of people subscribed for lots of different reasons - some wanted the mags, some wanted the tools, some required everything, and for some it was just inertia - they'd subscribed and never bothered to unsubscribe. But a new subscription service will therefore have problems, because at present there aren't any 5e tools. So will there be enough new subscribers to justify having a couple of people working full time on just the mags? Especially when they could be working on other, more valuable, things? (Forgot to say: while they can set this up as a continuation of the 4e DDI, and get to the required subscriber base that way, the 4e DDI surely [i]must[/i] be gradually bleeding subscribers by now - heading downwards towards a point where only the remaining 4e fans (who won't be interested in 5e mags anyway) and the 'inertia' subscribers are left. The longer they go before resuming the mags, the more of the rest they'll lose, and so the harder it will be to build it back up.) [/QUOTE]

Verification