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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7836078" data-attributes="member: 6716779">I already said earlier but you got s arkyvand sarcastic.You are aware of the broader socio economic things going on outside if your bubble?Alit of people don't have that much money,D&D and RPGs are still a middle class thing. Middle and upper class tend to make up around 30% of the population now.Amazon's not a nice corporation and with postage outside a few markets isn't that much cheaper.So the cost for a book is closer to $50 probably more as non D&D RPGs cost more than D&D.So what else can you do with $50? Or I'll use an ENworld subscription mine was $8 a month.It's not far off a subscription to to a streaming service.A RPG book isn't much cheaper than a subscription to say Xbox live or gamepass for a year.Now what's better value is entirely subjective but everything else is easier to use.I can buy a phb or 13 cans of beer and each can is 3.8 to 5.7 (900 mls) standard drinks.So I can can buy an RPG book, get plonked multiple times, get access to hundreds of games for almost a year.Plus you're probably going to have to run it and dig up players. There's a better than average chance the book is going to end up on your shelf gathering dust.So yeah it's not cheap compared to the alternatives like a streaming service, game service a steam sale.There was a humble bundle of Crusader Kings 2 for $16. All the DLC. Hundreds of hours if gaming.So yeah a lot if people don't have the money or relative to other stuff on a per hour basis it might not be that cheap either.</blockquote>

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