Will you subscribe to DDI?

[Fobok]

If you cancel your subscription do you lose access to all past articles?

This has already been confirmed as no.

If you get a new subscription, do you suddenly gain access to all of the old articles?
If someone hacks your account and both of you are online at the same time, will WotC kill your account and force you to talk to someone on a 1-800 # while you hunt around your PC or notes for your approval code?

No idea on these, but if your accounts get hacked that often to be a concern, I'd suggest coming up with new passwords and getting a spyware scanner.

 

[danbuter1]

Definately not. Killing Dragon and Dungeon magazines was the worst decision WotC has made, in my opinion. (and a website is NOT a magazine.)

 

[Lanefan]

I voted "doubtful" but I'm more like "very doubtful".

I've never had a subscription to either Dragon or Dungeon, but if a given issue caught my eye in the store and had something of interest I'd buy it. Result: I've got about 1/3 of all the Dragons, and a dozen or so early (pre-3e) Dungeons. I suspect the DI will not allow a browse-and-decide option.

The online gaming, be it minis or virtual-table, does nothing at all for me; and as I've no current plans to adopt 4e wholesale most of the tools will be of limited use. That said, I'm not saying "no" outright just yet, as it's possible some of the online tools just might be useful enough to me to be worthwhile...particularly if they can build things like random treasure and encounter tables that would take me many hours as a DM. (and, if they do the unthinkable and actually start using the DI to support 0-1e, I'll give it a really good look!)

Lanefan

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

Nope. I'm not moving to 4E (so the content doesn't draw me), I prefer face-to-face gaming (so the online table, etc. doesn't draw me), and I'm a Mac user (so I don't matter, anyway). All that puts me squarely outside the target market for DDI, so WotC can safely ignore me, and we'll both go on our merry ways.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I won't, but I am buying the core books for nostalgia's sake. Between family and other hobbies, I haven't had time to play RPGs for about 15 years.

I haven't been keeping up with 4e very closely (StarCraft II is holding my attention now), so this is probably why I have to ask a really dumb question:

What is the difference between Paizo's Pathfinder and WotC's DI? I just went to visit the Paizo page and it told me exactly what Pathfinder is (from what I can see, a replacement for Dungeon Magazine, and if 4e is to my liking, I will likely get a subscription) ... but seriously, what is the Digital Initiative?

(It doesn't help that much of what I see about DI involves random insults. )

 

[Christoph the Magus]

DDI is not required to play D&D at your table with other people, just like you do now, and you can still do D&D with pbp, as you can do now.

It's like being ticked off at Ferrari because I find one to buy in my state.

I mostly agree with what you're saying, with one caveat: a Character generator. With 3E, a character generator was a must for me to DM. Despite all of the talk about 4E being streamlined, I imagine that a character generator will still be quite a handy tool and, at this point, it looks like it will only be offered through the online service, which does tick me off, since I don't want/need anything that DDI is offering EXCEPT for the character generator.

 

[The Hound]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll never subscribe to ANY electronic magazine until they come up with something that lets me read one while laying on my couch with my feet propped up and my right hand in the Doritos bag. Maybe a *really* light notebook computer or a projector that can be aimed at my ceiling.