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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5706215" data-attributes="member: 3400">I don't think anyone's going to really dispute that subscriptions are Paizo's stable money-maker. But there are different sorts of subscriptions that have different implications for the hobby. Paizo offers pretty much all of its products via a subscription, but once you've gotten the materials, they are yours. Period. There's no ongoing cost to having access to them. Paizo continues to offer some service for them, in the form of updates to the PDF versions of the materials, but no further subscription needs to be maintained for that to occur.A subscription model for rules that relies on an online tool for access, access that is lost with the end of a subscription, is a very different animal. Can any of you be certain that WotC will provide a set of downloadable rules or have a downloadable format for the rules as they are in the DDI so that players can keep playing 4e once WotC no longer supports the 4e online world? What does this mean for the ultimate longevity of 4e once other editions have come down the pike? I suspect it won't last as long as 1e, 2e, or even 3x after it's out of print unless WotC continues to devote resources to it. Frankly, I don't see them doing that more than a few years after the next edition transition. What will happen to the 4e fans? Will they transition to using the print books and keep playing 4e? Will they move forward with new edition? Will they drift to other games?</blockquote>

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