Would you pay for so-called Online "Dungeon/Dragon" content from WotC?

[Corinth]

Software?

"Hey Bob! Mind if I borrow your copy of Acrobat so I can install it on my box?"
"Knock yourself out."

Digital music?

*laughs*

All I can download, for free, forever, thanks to P2P networks. If I need a physical copy, I burn it to disc. Alternatively, I can borrow someone else's copy and rip it to my hard drive.

Advertising?

Print is more visible, and anything audio/visual can be burned to disc.

Investments?

Service, not product. Know the difference.

 

[Olive]

Where's the "perhaps - it depends how the content is and the payment model" option?

 

[LoneWolf23]

Years ago, Steve Jackson Games turned their printed Pyramid Magazine online. Pyramid Online has since been operating for nearly a decade now, and I've been quite satisified with it.

If Dragon online can do the same, I'll be content.

 

[scourger]

Nope.

I reluctantly stopped my long-standing subscription to Dungeon last year. A couple of years ago, I sold about 40 old issues (2e stuff). It was tough, but I needed the space; and I had run all the best adventures from that collection. I'm doing the same now with the 3e issues.

I never was a big fan of Dragon, although I do have The Best of volume 4 that I keep for nostalgia. I do hate to see the only real industry magazine go away.

I'm not a big fan of electronic products. I find them most useful as an adjunct to the print medium. So, an all-electronic magazine is not something I'm likely to buy.

 

[Infernal Teddy]

Nothing. Absolutly nothing.

 

[Emirikol]

Let's suppose you'll pay $3.00 per issue for online and whatever it currently is now, does price matter?

Personally, I like paper. DUNGEON is to be used at the table..and paper is a better medium for doing that.

D&D doesn't need to be hijacked by the online gaming industry.

It doesn't improve the game...if it had, EVERYONE would have been playing with a laptop on their tabletop game for the last 10 years.

jh

 

[rounser]

"Hey Bob! Mind if I borrow your copy of Acrobat so I can install it on my box?"
"Knock yourself out."

All I can download, for free, forever, thanks to P2P networks. If I need a physical copy, I burn it to disc. Alternatively, I can borrow someone else's copy and rip it to my hard drive.

The argument that intellectual property has no monetary value because you pirate it is a very cheeky stance to take. Good luck defending that position.

Service, not product. Know the difference.

Pull your head in. There are many kinds of investments, some of which are physical assets which you might never see nor hold, and others which you might put in your living room. Or might well be your living room.