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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 4077318" data-attributes="member: 54877">If you were subscribing to both Dungeon and Dragon before, and they were sending a print version of those PDFs (through Lulu, perhaps), then it would be a decent deal.&nbsp; Otherwise, getting a PDF to read online or print at my own expense for the same cost as a magazine is not a good deal.But it doesn't matter, because I expect the tools to be bug-ridden, poorly designed, and practically undocumented.&nbsp; With the pricing model, there will be a lag of people joining in, and thus a tremendous lag on the &quot;network effect&quot;.&nbsp; (When you have a service that gains in value based on the number of users--like an online dating service, you want to get a lot of good users as quickly as you can, with aggressive pricing, to make the service attractive to a wider range of people--the network effect.)I see absolutely no signs that the management of DDI have any clue how to manage, market, develop, price, or present such a system.&nbsp; Maybe it will get better eventually, but it has a lot of baggage to overcome out of the gate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 4077318, member: 54877"] If you were subscribing to both Dungeon and Dragon before, [B]and[/B] they were sending a print version of those PDFs (through Lulu, perhaps), then it would be a decent deal. Otherwise, getting a PDF to read online or print at my own expense for the same cost as a magazine is not a good deal. But it doesn't matter, because I expect the tools to be bug-ridden, poorly designed, and practically undocumented. With the pricing model, there will be a lag of people joining in, and thus a tremendous lag on the "network effect". (When you have a service that gains in value based on the number of users--like an online dating service, you want to get a lot of good users as quickly as you can, with aggressive pricing, to make the service attractive to a wider range of people--the network effect.) I see absolutely no signs that the management of DDI have any clue how to manage, market, develop, price, or present such a system. Maybe it will get better eventually, but it has a lot of baggage to overcome out of the gate. [/QUOTE]

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