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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7274062" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>Only if you fundamentally misunderstand the economic realities in play.</p><p></p><p>Let's say Curse does decide, contrary to all self-interest, to go bankrupt offering PHBs on their service for $1. They lose money hand over fist, sell a bunch of subscriptions to their service, and then fold. Everyone that bought that PHB for a $1 just lost all access to it, because it was tied to the service platform that just folded. WotC made a bunch of money (or, more likely, is recovering it from Curse's owners in a lawsuit since Curse bombed and is bankrupt) because the sell through rate at $1 was incredible. They can try again with a different licensee, who will hopefully not be suicidal in business, at a higher price point. Everyone that bought a PHB from Curse now doesn't have it, so the value of those purchases is both worthless and not going to affect future sales.</p><p></p><p>What would happen is very bad press for WotC, as they will be linked to the failure of Curse and the loss of access even though they had nothing to do with it. Just like people, such as yourself, mistake the Curse DDB offering as somehow WotC in the shadows pulling strings rather than a straightforward business deal licensing IP. This would damage their future undertakings and likely mean they abandoned the digital market for a time (much like in the 3.x era).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7274062, member: 16814"] Only if you fundamentally misunderstand the economic realities in play. Let's say Curse does decide, contrary to all self-interest, to go bankrupt offering PHBs on their service for $1. They lose money hand over fist, sell a bunch of subscriptions to their service, and then fold. Everyone that bought that PHB for a $1 just lost all access to it, because it was tied to the service platform that just folded. WotC made a bunch of money (or, more likely, is recovering it from Curse's owners in a lawsuit since Curse bombed and is bankrupt) because the sell through rate at $1 was incredible. They can try again with a different licensee, who will hopefully not be suicidal in business, at a higher price point. Everyone that bought a PHB from Curse now doesn't have it, so the value of those purchases is both worthless and not going to affect future sales. What would happen is very bad press for WotC, as they will be linked to the failure of Curse and the loss of access even though they had nothing to do with it. Just like people, such as yourself, mistake the Curse DDB offering as somehow WotC in the shadows pulling strings rather than a straightforward business deal licensing IP. This would damage their future undertakings and likely mean they abandoned the digital market for a time (much like in the 3.x era). [/QUOTE]
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