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

[Maggan]

Jakar, its not so much "the sky is falling" for some of us as outrage that's akin to walking into your favorite steakhouse for a nice, juicy steak and being told that after September, they'll only be serving soyburgers.

I can understand being disappointed, but outraged? My favourite restaurants come and go, and there's just a slight annoyance at having to find another one if one goes out of business, or changes its offerings.

And that's what I don't get. Outrage?

/M

 

[Nightfall]

Maggan,

Yeah but when your restaurant leaves, you find another place to eat. What do Gamers do when the source of most of their info on games isn't there?

 

[tek2way]

I can see yours points, but it is just one of those things. Wotc owns the rights to the magazines, they can do with them what they want, and there is not much we can do about it but be unhappy. Will that bring the mags back? Nope, not at all, so I so not plan to be that unhappy and to have a look at the stuff WotC bring out and see if it is worth spending my $ on.

There is something I can do. I can choose to not purchase the web content. For me, it's not "the sky is falling" as much as "what do you mean, I no longer have magazines I can take places and read when I'm offline?"

Time to invest more heavily in C&C..

 

[Nightfall]

Tek,

That or True d20. Either seems the best bet for people right now pissed off with WotC.

 

[Jakar]

Maggan,

Yeah but when your restaurant leaves, you find another place to eat. What do Gamers do when the source of most of their info on games isn't there?

Well, I would look at the new place to get the info, say WotC, and then judge it and see if I liked it or not.

One thing I would not do is judge it before I had even seen it.

 

[Nightfall]

Jakar,

I judge based on the fact that PREVIOUS web content on WotC site a) rarely works, b) works for a while then changes, c) doesn't even bother trying to be interesting.

Reading is supposed to be fun. It's not fun doing it via a computer screen, let me tell you.

(And this is going on...+12 hours of no sleep too!)

 

[Maggan]

The elephant in the room is that writing for a website is a lot less interesting for prospective writers, so submissions should drop dramatically - death of the slush pile. That's assuming that they're even taking submissions, I didn't read WOTC's announcement too closely.

With only a handful of designers writing, quality won't be what it was, and adventure writing is hard - you only have to look at the official adventure path to realise that. So yeah, not good news, and I doubt the website will be a replacement for this reason alone.

Speaking as a writer, I don't give a rats tail for whether I'm writing for print or online. It's the pay that's the deciding factor.

Which actually rules out writing for RPGs ...

If I were WotC I'd use the online service as a training ground for prospective writers

/M

 

[Nightfall]

Jakar,

ANOTHER factor I have is the fact that even the latest PREVIEWS don't show much of anything fun or interesting to me. What that's going to be like when I have to PAY for it?

 

[Nightfall]

Speaking as a writer, I don't give a rats tail for whether I'm writing for print or online. It's the pay that's the deciding factor.

Which actually rules out writing for RPGs ...

If I were WotC I'd use the online service as a training ground for prospective writers

/M

Maggan,

Yeah and then watch your subscriptions tail off. The worst thing you can do is making something a training ground and expect people to pay the same as you would for a regular novel.

 

[Maggan]

Maggan,

Em is being sarcastic ...

Ok, then I'll abstain from voting.

/M