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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 1:14PM
#21
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Date Joined:
Nov 26, 2006
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I might be willing to use D&D Insider despite the cost. It has both Dungeon and Dragon magazines. It all really depends on whether or not 4e is any good. A character and campaign vault aren't anything new. I use thetangledweb.com for storing my characters. Whatever is in D&D Insider will probably be a much more useful version of this. And of course there's the campaign manager. I've seen free ones on the internet before that weren't very good. Hopefully this will be better.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 8:20PM
#22
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2003
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The handout said free until Jan 2008. Then it's $9.95/month.
You might as well play a real online game and save yourself the price of books.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 8:32PM
#23
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Date Joined:
Jan 24, 2006
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You might as well play a real online game and save yourself the price of books.[/quote]
I disagree (though I'll probably end up doing both this and a "real" online game), from what I could see in the videos the virtual tabletop interface looks very nice and completely worth 10 bucks a month.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 8:51PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2003
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Niles... Same problem here. It just keeps reverting back to "guest" whenever I move to the password field to type my password in
Same here. POS.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 9:04PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2003
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I disagree (though I'll probably end up doing both this and a "real" online game), from what I could see in the videos the virtual tabletop interface looks very nice and completely worth 10 bucks a month.
Maybe for a group but $120 bucks a year per player is nuts. I'd expect only a little more than that for a year of Age of Conan when it comes out. It's like twice XBox Live gold.
$10 bucks a month would be reasonable on a per campaign basis...full DM access (toolkits + create online game) with limited player access (character creator + join online game). One time purchase for adventures. Additional subscription fee for the mags.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 9:20PM
#26
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Date Joined:
Apr 20, 2006
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Maybe for a group but $120 bucks a year per player is nuts. I'd expect only a little more than that for a year of Age of Conan when it comes out. It's like twice XBox Live gold.
I'm fully expecting Age of Conan to follow the trend of $14.99 a month, especially with all the features it's touting.
That's roughly $174 a year.
Most MMOs do that, by the way.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 9:27PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2003
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I'm fully expecting Age of Conan to follow the trend of $14.99 a month, especially with all the features it's touting.
That's roughly $174 a month.
Most MMOs do that, by the way.
A 12 month commitment will probably be 13 or so (wow 13 for 6mo commit). LOTRO was 9.99 with pre-order.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 9:29PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 27, 2007
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I happen to know this one, because I was on a consumer panel on the subject once. Think MySpace for D&D. You put stuff online, and other people can look at your characters, campaign setting/story arc, house rules, whatever. In combination with the D&D Game Table, it would be useful in finding a game to join (find a campaign that interests you, or find a player to fill a niche). And of course the optimizers will be able to share their builds this way.
..of course, I don't know why you'd pay for this as opposed to using MySpace for the same thing (it's be easy enough), unless you were already paying for Insider for other reasons.
Sounds almost exactly like Obsidian Portal -- and it's already up and running!
http://www.obsidianportal.com
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6 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2007 - 1:18AM
#29
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Date Joined:
Apr 21, 2006
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Enter the new world of warcraft...
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6 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2007 - 1:20AM
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Date Joined:
Feb 12, 2007
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Yeah apparently all we can do is guess as a "guest" at this point.
Posted this elsewhere as well, but it seemed appropriate to repeat it...
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I just find it find it curious that they said during the GenCon presentation (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) that Insider would "go live in full preview mode" right after the announcement presentation, yet apparently "free preview mode" means (at the moment) "seeing exactly what you can see on the D&D website without logging in to Insider."
I understand the tools aren't up, and new Dragon and Dungeon content won't arrive until October (if I recall correctly)... but then what is the point of activating a "free preview mode" if you have nothing to preview as of yet?
Don't get me wrong, I will still be checking the site almost daily to see what new stuff is made available.
It's just kind of funny that:
(A) so many people attempted to log on to the site following the announcement that it led to a server crash of at least 12 hours in length; and
(B) once the server was brought back online the amount of exclusive "free preview" content people could log on to see turned out to be absolutely zero.
So you mean we dropped the site's HP to below zero (but higher than -10) with nothing to show for it?
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