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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 5673658" data-attributes="member: 40810">It's not the customers responsibility to make sure that WotC's model is sustainable. If they are legally buying by the terms set by WotC, then it's WotC's fault for offering to sell at those terms. I don't think we'll ever again see a print dungeon magazine. Well, during the last months they seem to try to beat each other at a "how few crunch can we offer this month in Dragon" game And all these people would then not only give their free time for free to "work" for WotC but actually pay WotC to be allowed to spend their free time to work for them instead of just thinking "**** this, I am back to runing a home game" because of? Because it's much more interesting to not only beg people to DM for them for free, but to beg people to pay them to be allowed to DM for them for free?Since the days of LG I have never seen a Con/Store/other game day location that had too many DMs. I have seen a whole lot of players having been send away because there were too few DMs to have enough seats for all interested players, never seen the opposite. I don't know how it's at the really huge Cons, but all Cons I ever visited had free entry for all days if you just volunteered to DM a single game at a single day.Trying to get the DMs to pay to be allowed to DM? Seriously? The sad thing is that also many long-time DDI subscribers prefer the CBloaded offline builder over the silverlight builder because it offers a much better service.Not because of price, these people are paying their DDI fees, but because it supports more game rules than the official siverlight builder, has fewer bugs, the bugs that appear are fixed more quickly and new material is added faster than into the official silverlight CB. It's also much more user friendly once you have build your character and want to get a character sheet. The official silverlight builder doesn't even let you chose a custom protrait for your sheet, while the offline builder already allowed you to move every information to wherever you want it to be. Want your basic attack in the middle of page 2 instead of the bottom right of page 1? Sure, here you go. The only thing the silverlight builder has going over the offline builder is the ritual book. That was a great addition but is sadly the only point where the silverlight builder is not inferior to the offline builder.Sure improving the service level of the silverlight builder won't ever persuade the people who just want to pirate to get everything for free, however it's sad when pirates enjoy a better service and product than the actual customers</blockquote>

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