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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gariig" data-source="post: 721589" data-attributes="member: 1120">I believe Mynex posted that they are using Paypal now(which all you need is a bank account) for payment and are looking into other methods.  My only concern is this:The FRCS (which I play in) dataset comes out tomorrow, I gladly purchase it and have lots of domains, feats, PrCs, etc and life is good.  A year and a half down the road money is hard for CMP, so what do you do..write some changes so that LSTs can't be read except by purchasing the newer ones and the changes were done in 20 minutes of perl script.  I know CMP isn't like this, but as a consumer I realize it can be.  Also, PCGen has about a 6 month LST cycle it seems...so to me, I'm going to wait about 6 months to purchase my LST so I can outlive the subscription date.  Also, what stops CMP from tagging the files with a date and having the LST files stop working after the 1 year(this could be accomplished with the LST engine over haul technique).  I'm sorry to say this about Mynex and others, they do seem to be good people.  However, in my experience, money makes people do strange things.  I worry that they might get money grubbing and start to do some underhanded tactics, a la Microsoft.  In short, the buying of IP at 3-5 a book is fine.  Hell, I'm all for it!!  However, the 3-5 a year subscription fee is totally bogus.  I as a consumer don't like to have to be forced to do anything unless I want.  Also, I see the subscription thing as a one sided issue.  After my initial acquisition of the LST file, paying 3-5 dollars in 365 days nets me nothing.  This isn't like Dragon Magazine where resubscribing gets me 12 new shiney books, it's like getting nothing for 3-5 dollars.  Also, it's going to come to a point where you could be paying $100+ in subscription fees to use PCGen with WoTC material.  Great idea, really bad implementation of it.</blockquote>

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