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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 5602320" data-attributes="member: 55271">Yup. Those would both be value-adds (player-matching services; providing a DM to make play possible) that would justify the price.But you aren't even accurately comparing the costs involved. You're comparing the partial cost of one form of entertainment with the full cost of another form of entertainment.These apple-to-hydrant comparisons seem to happen all the time with RPGs. Another classic one is "you pay $20 for a DVD that lasts for 2 hours; but you'll get hundreds of hours of play from the $50 RPG core rulebook". (You'll never watch the DVD more than once? You'll play every RPG you buy for dozens of sessions and never buy another supplement or miniature or dice for that RPG?)And even if you did a comparison of actual cost to actual cost, there's still the fundamental flaw that comparing the value of entertainment on a pure "time consumed" basis doesn't actually have much of anything to do with the way people make decisions regarding the entertainment they'll consume. (4 hour movies are not automatically considered better than 2 hour movies.)</blockquote>