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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5706230" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, that's the point.  With a subscription model, the game is no longer driven by sales of the PHB.  Who cares how many PHB's (or Pathfinder for that matter) you sell?  It's having those guys that give you your money every month that is keeping you in business.   But, that's not the present model.  The present model is you spend your 7 bucks a month to get access to everything.  If you want to actually buy the book, go ahead and there's stuff there to make you happy.  OTOH, you don't have to do that and you can play with all the stuff in that book without actually buying it.Oh, I totally understand that they are different models.  I'm not trying to say that they are the same.  Although, while I cannot guarantee anything, obviously, it seems to me that it would cost them nothing to keep 4e in legacy mode for the duration of the DDI, regardless of edition.  They don't need to provide any support.  Move on to 5e, put a tab on the DDI to switch between editions and off you go.  It costs them bandwidth and that's it.  It's not like they have to go back and input all the material from an entire edition into a format that that edition wasn't created in.  4e is already in the DDI.Sure, they might turn it off, but, why?  So long as people continue to subscribe to the DDI, why would they possibly care what edition you're playing?  My entire point though, wasn't about one subscription model vs another.  It was subscription model vs traditional book model.  Both Paizo and WOTC have gone to a subscription model for their business.  There's a very, very good reason for this (actually, there are several) and hoping that we'll go back to providing print material in book format sold through traditional distribution chains is just dreaming.</blockquote>

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