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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8917392" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It is, though. For a purely digital subscription, which isn't even giving you permanent copies? It's wildly out-of-wack.</p><p></p><p>It's double the price of subscriptions which provide nigh-endless content, like Netflix or World of Warcraft.</p><p></p><p>And hell, even at $30, we've gotta assume that's including access to every single book, because otherwise, you're what, having to buy books on top of that? And no doubt you are buying minis, tiles, dice, etc. on top, even if some are "free" (lol).</p><p></p><p>PF's sub isn't really a sub as much as a decision to auto-buy everything. Because you're buying it outright. You're not renting it. It's not digital only. There's no taking it away from you. You're just getting a bunch of PDFs and potentially physical books. It's a subscription in a much more old-fashioned sense, like when a library "subscribes" to a series of books from a publisher. When I worked in the law library at my old firm we used to subscribe to books or series of books or looseleafs that way. You physically (and sometimes digitally) get everything they publish in that period. Nobody takes it away when you stop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8917392, member: 18"] It is, though. For a purely digital subscription, which isn't even giving you permanent copies? It's wildly out-of-wack. It's double the price of subscriptions which provide nigh-endless content, like Netflix or World of Warcraft. And hell, even at $30, we've gotta assume that's including access to every single book, because otherwise, you're what, having to buy books on top of that? And no doubt you are buying minis, tiles, dice, etc. on top, even if some are "free" (lol). PF's sub isn't really a sub as much as a decision to auto-buy everything. Because you're buying it outright. You're not renting it. It's not digital only. There's no taking it away from you. You're just getting a bunch of PDFs and potentially physical books. It's a subscription in a much more old-fashioned sense, like when a library "subscribes" to a series of books from a publisher. When I worked in the law library at my old firm we used to subscribe to books or series of books or looseleafs that way. You physically (and sometimes digitally) get everything they publish in that period. Nobody takes it away when you stop. [/QUOTE]
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