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<blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 5533830" data-attributes="member: 27160">If the revenue wasn't covering the development costs (plus profit) then they definitely needed to do something, I agree.&nbsp; I just utterly disagree that the best (or even a vaguely good) thing to do was rebuild the current product with less utility.Suppose they had kept the offline CB and Adventure Tools, introduced one-time charges for having access to them (which got you a unique registration code) and tied updates and additional services (like upload access to the VTT, character and monster design sharing - both upload and download - and similar services) to being logged in with an account linked to such a unique code.&nbsp; The CB itself doesn't need the web stuff to work, but to take full advantage of the webstuff with the CB you need to have it registered to your account.&nbsp; I would still be subscribed, the 'occasional payer' would still be paying occasionally (plus a one-off for the program initially) and I think a lot of the flack that has hit over the whole shebang would never have happened.&nbsp; And the development costs for the switch would almost certainly have been lower.And that is just one example of an alternative schema that I think would have worked better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Balesir, post: 5533830, member: 27160"] If the revenue wasn't covering the development costs (plus profit) then they definitely needed to do something, I agree. I just utterly disagree that the best (or even a vaguely good) thing to do was rebuild the current product with less utility. Suppose they had kept the offline CB and Adventure Tools, introduced one-time charges for having access to them (which got you a [B]unique[/B] registration code) and tied updates and additional services (like upload access to the VTT, character and monster design sharing - both upload and download - and similar services) to being logged in with an account linked to such a unique code. The CB itself doesn't need the web stuff to work, but to take full advantage of the webstuff with the CB you need to have it registered to your account. I would still be subscribed, the 'occasional payer' would still be paying occasionally (plus a one-off for the program initially) and I think a lot of the flack that has hit over the whole shebang would never have happened. [B]And[/B] the development costs for the switch would almost certainly have been lower. And that is just one example of an alternative schema that I think would have worked better. [/QUOTE]

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