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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5372778">From my retail experience, I tend to agree.&nbsp; Customers DO try to get the best deal, but it is usually through guilt-tripping, bullying, or complaining.&nbsp; Rarely is it though rational thought and good information, the few customers who actually go and get well informed, usually do get the better deal.&nbsp; The same is usually true for companies, though in reverse, as they generally try to cheat, lie, and abuse the customer though emotional responses, not through sound and rational tactics. &nbsp;I really don't buy content and I don't buy many rules either.&nbsp; Partially, because as one of my GMs taught me, &quot;if you wanna play it, buy the book&quot;, which is really a cool and fair deal.&nbsp; I wanted to play a deva, so I bought PHB2 and Divine Power, it was unreasonable of me to expect him to buy all the books, and between me and 3 other players, we bought a variety of different books and now have quite a group collection for our DM to use in games.I don't buy content because I think it's dumb.&nbsp; I can create a fantasy setting, why pay $30 for a book with one?&nbsp; Sure, it's got all the encounters and stuff pre-designed, but hey, I love to do that.&nbsp;In regards to essentials, I'm still on the fence.&nbsp; I'll likely integrate some aspects of it into a game at some point if people want to use them, otherwise there's enough of it I don't like to not buy it.&nbsp;Although all of this is good self-maximization, the rational thought part of the equation means that if we want to keep getting anything, WotC needs to see the interest.&nbsp; Which warrants the occassional impulse buy in my book, be it on Minis, books, or what have you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 5372778"] From my retail experience, I tend to agree. Customers DO try to get the best deal, but it is usually through guilt-tripping, bullying, or complaining. Rarely is it though rational thought and good information, the few customers who actually go and get well informed, usually do get the better deal. The same is usually true for companies, though in reverse, as they generally try to cheat, lie, and abuse the customer though emotional responses, not through sound and rational tactics. I really don't buy content and I don't buy many rules either. Partially, because as one of my GMs taught me, "if you wanna play it, buy the book", which is really a cool and fair deal. I wanted to play a deva, so I bought PHB2 and Divine Power, it was unreasonable of me to expect him to buy all the books, and between me and 3 other players, we bought a variety of different books and now have quite a group collection for our DM to use in games. I don't buy content because I think it's dumb. I can create a fantasy setting, why pay $30 for a book with one? Sure, it's got all the encounters and stuff pre-designed, but hey, I love to do that. In regards to essentials, I'm still on the fence. I'll likely integrate some aspects of it into a game at some point if people want to use them, otherwise there's enough of it I don't like to not buy it. Although all of this is good self-maximization, the rational thought part of the equation means that if we want to keep getting anything, WotC needs to see the interest. Which warrants the occassional impulse buy in my book, be it on Minis, books, or what have you. [/QUOTE]

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