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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 8912762" data-attributes="member: 53082"><p>"She pointed out that dungeon masters only made up 20% of the customer base, with an untapped player base that could be unlocked as "recurrent spenders," with more than 70% of digital gaming profits coming from post-sale."</p><p></p><p>This is a particularly important point. Subscriptions and microtransactions have been all the rage in software for some time now so this is the goal: make D&D more like a software product, more like a videogame, so that more of the player base is spending money. </p><p></p><p>The actual tabletop side is trickier here as what do you consider the "sale"? Just a PHB? Miniatures and various knick-knacks aimed at the players is already a thing so presumably that's not the main focus.</p><p></p><p>The approach that best enables this model is a subscription to enable online play so they can sell you minis/tokens and cosmetics at the very least and possibly rules packages as well - so, they go buy D&D Beyond and have a jump start on this right away. If this is the plan I would think that "letting the DM share all of his books with the players" angle they have could change pretty drastically - down the road at least. The rollout of the new edition sounds like the perfect opportunity to revise the subscription plans, even if they leave the 5E options alone as a separate program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 8912762, member: 53082"] "She pointed out that dungeon masters only made up 20% of the customer base, with an untapped player base that could be unlocked as "recurrent spenders," with more than 70% of digital gaming profits coming from post-sale." This is a particularly important point. Subscriptions and microtransactions have been all the rage in software for some time now so this is the goal: make D&D more like a software product, more like a videogame, so that more of the player base is spending money. The actual tabletop side is trickier here as what do you consider the "sale"? Just a PHB? Miniatures and various knick-knacks aimed at the players is already a thing so presumably that's not the main focus. The approach that best enables this model is a subscription to enable online play so they can sell you minis/tokens and cosmetics at the very least and possibly rules packages as well - so, they go buy D&D Beyond and have a jump start on this right away. If this is the plan I would think that "letting the DM share all of his books with the players" angle they have could change pretty drastically - down the road at least. The rollout of the new edition sounds like the perfect opportunity to revise the subscription plans, even if they leave the 5E options alone as a separate program. [/QUOTE]
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