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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6267029" data-attributes="member: 7006">Except my point is that yeah, you're keeping content... but its content you're never going to ever use again, so what difference does it make whether or not you still have it?I had AD&amp;D and AD&amp;D 2nd Edition books for the longest time, and kept lugging them around from apartment to apartment, before finally realizing I was never going to ever use them again... so why bother keeping them?&nbsp; So I junked them.&nbsp; And it's going to be the same way eventually with 4E.&nbsp; And at that point, it doesn't matter whether I just throw out or sell a hardcover book, or the server gets shut down-- I wasn't playing the game either way.Which is why the concept of &quot;renting&quot; the game (as some people call the subscription model) doesn't bother me at all.&nbsp; Because the game's going to be collecting metaphorical dust for me long before I ever have to worry about the server being shut down.Not to mention the fact that if by some chance in the distance future I decide I want the product again... I'll just buy it again in whatever new and better format has become available.&nbsp; People have done that with music for years-- buying the same albums on vinyl, then cassette, then CD, then MP3.&nbsp; So for D&amp;D... if I feel the need to ever play AD&amp;D again, I'll just pick up a new PDF of it on dndclassics.com.For me, the ease of using the Character Builder, Monster Builder, Compendium et. al... more than makes up for the idea that at some time in the future they are all going to be shut down and thus I can't access that stuff anymore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6267029, member: 7006"] Except my point is that yeah, you're keeping content... but its content you're never going to ever use again, so what difference does it make whether or not you still have it? I had AD&D and AD&D 2nd Edition books for the longest time, and kept lugging them around from apartment to apartment, before finally realizing I was never going to ever use them again... so why bother keeping them? So I junked them. And it's going to be the same way eventually with 4E. And at that point, it doesn't matter whether I just throw out or sell a hardcover book, or the server gets shut down-- I wasn't playing the game either way. Which is why the concept of "renting" the game (as some people call the subscription model) doesn't bother me at all. Because the game's going to be collecting metaphorical dust for me long before I ever have to worry about the server being shut down. Not to mention the fact that if by some chance in the distance future I decide I want the product again... I'll just buy it again in whatever new and better format has become available. People have done that with music for years-- buying the same albums on vinyl, then cassette, then CD, then MP3. So for D&D... if I feel the need to ever play AD&D again, I'll just pick up a new PDF of it on dndclassics.com. For me, the [I]ease[/I] of using the Character Builder, Monster Builder, Compendium et. al... more than makes up for the idea that at some time in the future they are all going to be shut down and thus I can't access that stuff anymore. [/QUOTE]

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