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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3944847" data-attributes="member: 18549">This issue has the potential to be a deal-breaker for me.&nbsp; I want to use the VTT, and that's pretty much the only reason I'd subscribe to DDI.&nbsp; If they're charging $10/month for each player in my group (ATM, $50/month to play D&amp;D with my friends from out of town), they had better pony up with an attractive package.&nbsp; I'd pay $5 to unlock an entire book of monsters, and spread the costs out so that we each pay $1 to have nice minis.&nbsp; But anything more then that and I'm starting to wonder &quot;why the hell are we paying for this?&quot;&nbsp; Doesn't $50/month sound like we're paying enough to play the &quot;deluxe version&quot;?&nbsp; What else could I spend $50/month on, while I use Skype and OpenRPG instead?&nbsp; If I'm going to use an ugly interface with counters, I might as well just use a free VTT.What if I decide to cancel?&nbsp; Do I get my money back?&nbsp; Do I get real minis to replace my virtual ones?&nbsp; Do I get the value in book rebates?Given that the game table is supposed to be the centrepiece of the DDI, and the main gateway to finding and playing in games, if it looks like crap by default, it's going to turn people off.&nbsp; I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they don't turn this into something I'm going to hate.Before anyone chimes in with &quot;but you get the character sheets and encounter thingy and whatever,&quot; these things are, as I see it, cute frills appended to the VTT.&nbsp; They're minor timesaving devices, and seem to be designed to make it easier to run pick-up games and living FR modules over the VTT.&nbsp; The VTT is the centrepiece of this package, it's what they're selling the DDI on, and so it had better be worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 3944847, member: 18549"] This issue has the potential to be a deal-breaker for me. I want to use the VTT, and that's pretty much the only reason I'd subscribe to DDI. If they're charging $10/month for each player in my group (ATM, $50/month to play D&D with my friends from out of town), they had better pony up with an attractive package. I'd pay $5 to unlock an entire book of monsters, and spread the costs out so that we each pay $1 to have nice minis. But anything more then that and I'm starting to wonder "why the hell are we paying for this?" Doesn't $50/month sound like we're paying enough to play the "deluxe version"? What else could I spend $50/month on, while I use Skype and OpenRPG instead? If I'm going to use an ugly interface with counters, I might as well just use a free VTT. What if I decide to cancel? Do I get my money back? Do I get real minis to replace my virtual ones? Do I get the value in book rebates? Given that the game table is supposed to be the centrepiece of the DDI, and the main gateway to finding and playing in games, if it looks like crap by default, it's going to turn people off. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they don't turn this into something I'm going to hate. Before anyone chimes in with "but you get the character sheets and encounter thingy and whatever," these things are, as I see it, cute frills appended to the VTT. They're minor timesaving devices, and seem to be designed to make it easier to run pick-up games and living FR modules over the VTT. The VTT is the centrepiece of this package, it's what they're selling the DDI on, and so it had better be worth it. [/QUOTE]

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