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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6302969" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>[MENTION=95493]Tovec[/MENTION], there is just too much to reply to and honestly I'm not sure a back-and-forth would be fruitful at all. I do agree that 5E is expensive, even more expensive than any other RPG to play--at least as far as we know (rumor has it that there might be free, or cheap, online tools, possibly an SRD of some kind)--but as I said, they have the right to be. D&D is the Kleenex/Coke/Xerox/Rolex/Apple of RPGs. I'm not a big fan of capitalist ideology, but the simple fact of the matter is that companies charge as much as they possibly can, and evidently WotC thinks that $50 books will sell just as much as $40 books, or at least enough to make up for any lost sales.</p><p></p><p>All that said, I would love to see them come out with a "cheap version" of the game - sort of like an expanded starter set with more races and classes, levels 1-10, and chargen for $30 or so. But that's beside the point.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, my concern is that--as with any internet context--we end up seeing endless polarized discussions that become rather predictable. There' are two extremes of people who have a beef with WotC and will thus criticize anything they do ("haters"), and those who avidly support anything they do ("fanbois"); I'm simply suggesting that we find some kind of middle ground. In this context it means seeing the reasoning behind their pricing, and pointing out that while it is expensive, it isn't that out of whack, although still retaining critical judgment (again, I would have thought $40-45 would have made more sense).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 6302969, member: 59082"] [MENTION=95493]Tovec[/MENTION], there is just too much to reply to and honestly I'm not sure a back-and-forth would be fruitful at all. I do agree that 5E is expensive, even more expensive than any other RPG to play--at least as far as we know (rumor has it that there might be free, or cheap, online tools, possibly an SRD of some kind)--but as I said, they have the right to be. D&D is the Kleenex/Coke/Xerox/Rolex/Apple of RPGs. I'm not a big fan of capitalist ideology, but the simple fact of the matter is that companies charge as much as they possibly can, and evidently WotC thinks that $50 books will sell just as much as $40 books, or at least enough to make up for any lost sales. All that said, I would love to see them come out with a "cheap version" of the game - sort of like an expanded starter set with more races and classes, levels 1-10, and chargen for $30 or so. But that's beside the point. Anyhow, my concern is that--as with any internet context--we end up seeing endless polarized discussions that become rather predictable. There' are two extremes of people who have a beef with WotC and will thus criticize anything they do ("haters"), and those who avidly support anything they do ("fanbois"); I'm simply suggesting that we find some kind of middle ground. In this context it means seeing the reasoning behind their pricing, and pointing out that while it is expensive, it isn't that out of whack, although still retaining critical judgment (again, I would have thought $40-45 would have made more sense). [/QUOTE]
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