What kind of hit did DDI take a year after subscriptions started? Was it huge?

[Keefe the Thief]

25,000 people at $5.95 a month--the minimum rate--is $148,750/month revenue for WotC. I have to assume that they're happy about this new revenue channel bringing them more than $1¾ million per year.

It´s even better: it´s predictable money. Best money in the business world.

 

[Squizzle]

It´s even better: it´s predictable money. Best money in the business world.

Indeed. If DDI is anything but an unvarnished success for WotC, it could only be if they are using its income to buy needle drugs from street vendors.

 

[Eccles]

I'd fully intended to unsubscribe, and followed all the instructions on these boards to try to stop them from having all my information. Then when the year was out, I got an email to say that they'd extended the damn thing anyway...

Still - Character Builder's a nice thing, and so I kept it.

 

[Snoweel]

I have it on pretty good authority that I am the only remaining subscriber to DDI.

So whatever it's costing them to run, they're only recouping about US$6 a month.

I'd call it a massive financial failure on WotC's part.

 

[wedgeski]

Couldn't wait to resubscribe.

 

[vagabundo]

I only use a small subset of my DDI sub, but I love having it.

I don't use it to it's full potential and there are a lot of areas that it could be improved, but it is well worth the price of admission.

 

[Dannager]

25,000 people at $5.95 a month--the minimum rate--is $148,750/month revenue for WotC. I have to assume that they're happy about this new revenue channel bringing them more than $1¾ million per year.

I'd be willing to bet it's more along the lines of $3-4 million a year, when you account for the huge number of subscribers who aren't on the forums, and the fact that many are subscribing at the 3-month or 1-month rates.

And, honestly, they deserve every dollar. Insider is the greatest toolset ever produced for tabletop roleplaying, in my opinion.

 

[TerraDave]

I think people may have initially subscribed for Dungeon and Dragon, but staid for the charecter builder and compendium.

And those applications keep pulling people in.

 

[Scribble]

Just curious as to y'all's theories:
What kind of hit did DDI take a year after subscriptions started? Was it huge?

How many people do you estimate found that it was worth their while to continue their subscription?

jh
Has unsubscribed from DUNGEON for the first time since issue #1...

As other have said, I think even if they did loose some people after the year was up, the size of the amount of new people they get on the thing most likely outweighs the loses, so there wasn't a "hit."

I re-upped after my year was up. The thing is awesome if you're a DM, and I've heard from the players in my old group it was pretty much a godsend for them as well.

 

[Stoat]

All attempts to ascertain whether 4E is doing well or poorly are speculative, futile and lead only to low-level flame wars.

I'm keeping my DDI subscription, primarily for the Compendium and Monster Builder. Those two applications are worth what I'm paying for them.

Dungeon started out ok, but the quality of the adventures had nose-dived. Scales of War cannot end soon enough.

I DM 90% of the time, and Dragon has lost almost all of my interest. I just don't need to read a list of new Warlord powers or feats for Dragonborn or whatever.