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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5392890">Exactly.&nbsp; Unless it's printed, it is, for all intents and purposes, the same magazine to me. &nbsp;The last CB was more functional and people were barely willing to pay for it at all.&nbsp; With this at least I challenge you to say that people will pay more for more.&nbsp; The average customer, no matter how good the deal they're given, will always demand more for less.&nbsp; The new CB could have been twice as good as the old one, and people would still complain it is too expensive.&nbsp;If people are truly willing to pay more for better quality content or software, then they need to TELL Wizards that, instead of only telling them they want more for less.&nbsp;I will continue to assert that outsourcing is NOT NECESSARY.&nbsp; Winters are cold at any business.&nbsp; Profits slow down towards Christmas and then explode at the last moment.&nbsp; Many, MANY companies are laying people off, not just Wizards.&nbsp; So I can hardly fault them for wanting to make do with what they have, isntead of taking a risk on someone else.&nbsp;IMO, Wizards would do well to take the EA approach, find someone who is good at making software, and bring them in-house.&nbsp; The amount of control you have on your product when it's kept in-house is massive compared to when you outsource it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 5392890"] Exactly. Unless it's printed, it is, for all intents and purposes, the same magazine to me. The last CB was more functional and people were barely willing to pay for it at all. With this at least I challenge you to say that people will pay more for more. The average customer, no matter how good the deal they're given, will always demand more for less. The new CB could have been twice as good as the old one, and people would still complain it is too expensive. If people are truly willing to pay more for better quality content or software, then they need to TELL Wizards that, instead of only telling them they want more for less. I will continue to assert that outsourcing is NOT NECESSARY. Winters are cold at any business. Profits slow down towards Christmas and then explode at the last moment. Many, MANY companies are laying people off, not just Wizards. So I can hardly fault them for wanting to make do with what they have, isntead of taking a risk on someone else. IMO, Wizards would do well to take the EA approach, find someone who is good at making software, and bring them in-house. The amount of control you have on your product when it's kept in-house is massive compared to when you outsource it. [/QUOTE]

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