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<blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 5540167" data-attributes="member: 27160">Wow, you started yet another post with the word 'wow', for no apparent reason <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Re. differential pricing, I'm not talking about volume discounts - I'm talking about different prices for a different service plan, different extras or different product bundles.&nbsp; E.g. if you are prepared to accept the product without updates and online enhancements (like upload to the VTT), you pay less.&nbsp;Anyone who wanted legitimate access to the builder before had to pay, too - so what?If you have complete control of supply and no competition, sure.&nbsp; But every intellectual property supplier, be it as books, software, databases or whatever, nowadays has competition.&nbsp; The pirates.&nbsp; That competition can be beaten, like any competition, by a successful business - but not by trying to sell an inferior product at a profitable price.&nbsp; By selling an excellent product at a profitable price - quite possibly.But the price hasn't gone up.&nbsp; Why would anyone be paying more?No, current subscribers are SOL as soon as WotC either decides to stop supporting the CB, moves on to a new edition or changes the CB to match a change the subscriber doesn't like.&nbsp; In other words, the current subscriber is getting an inferior product for their money.&nbsp; If some are happy with that, good luck to them.More overhead, I don't see why.&nbsp; More maintenance, maybe, but, unless the processes are really inefficient, not by much.Possibly - but I don't see why they would pay, now.&nbsp; If it wasn't worth it before, it certainly won't be now the product is worse.If you like getting inferior product for your money and being at the mercy of your supplier, don't let me stop you.&nbsp; I already decided not to accept the deal.&nbsp; If enough is added to DDI to make it worth the money to me, I may resubscribe - but I'll never use the online tools, so they will remain just baggage as far as I'm concerned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Balesir, post: 5540167, member: 27160"] Wow, you started yet another post with the word 'wow', for no apparent reason ;) Re. differential pricing, I'm not talking about volume discounts - I'm talking about different prices for a different service plan, different extras or different product bundles. E.g. if you are prepared to accept the product without updates and online enhancements (like upload to the VTT), you pay less. Anyone who wanted legitimate access to the builder before had to pay, too - so what? If you have complete control of supply and no competition, sure. But every intellectual property supplier, be it as books, software, databases or whatever, nowadays has competition. The pirates. That competition can be beaten, like any competition, by a successful business - but not by trying to sell an inferior product at a profitable price. By selling an excellent product at a profitable price - quite possibly. But the price hasn't gone up. Why would anyone be paying more? No, current subscribers are SOL as soon as WotC either decides to stop supporting the CB, moves on to a new edition or changes the CB to match a change the subscriber doesn't like. In other words, the current subscriber is getting an inferior product for their money. If some are happy with that, good luck to them. More overhead, I don't see why. More maintenance, maybe, but, unless the processes are [I]really[/I] inefficient, not by much. Possibly - but I don't see why they would pay, now. If it wasn't worth it before, it certainly won't be now the product is worse. If you like getting inferior product for your money and being at the mercy of your supplier, don't let me stop you. I already decided not to accept the deal. If enough is added to DDI to make it worth the money to me, I may resubscribe - but I'll never use the online tools, so they will remain just baggage as far as I'm concerned. [/QUOTE]

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