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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 2:24PM
#71
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it will be a key code that for a very nominal fee you can unlock your e-book and it will auto populate your databases.
Two questions:
1) how large is "very nominal"? (not that I really expect an answer yet)
2) slightly off-topic, but will it auto populate databases other than for character creation? Databases that dm's might want for monsters, for example.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 2:27PM
#72
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Please explain to me how you (WotC) can justify charging a second fee to un-lock online use of a product you've just purchased?? Even if it's just $0.99, that's pretty bloody low, if you ask me.
1) it is a verification step that helps us deal with less than honest people who take the code and activate it.
2) there is cost, albeit small, with making the e-book and we either build that cost into the cover price and everyone pays whether they use it or not (sort of a tax on non-ebook users) or we do it this way where it is variable and let the user self select.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 2:29PM
#73
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Date Joined:
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Two questions:
1) how large is "very nominal"? (not that I really expect an answer yet)
2) slightly off-topic, but will it auto populate databases other than for character creation? Databases that dm's might want for monsters, for example.
1) can't say right now but I guess about the cost of a coffee (what I can't say is if it drip or a Starbucks triple vente chocolate mocha.)
2) yes
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 2:31PM
#74
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1) it is a verification step that helps us deal with less than honest people who take the code and activate it.
2) there is cost albeit small with making the e-book and we either build that cost into the cover price and everyone pays whether they use it or not (sort of a tax on non-ebook users) or we do it this way.
Okay, I can accept that. Thanks! :D
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 2:34PM
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Date Joined:
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2) there is cost, albeit small, with making the e-book and we either build that cost into the cover price and everyone pays whether they use it or not (sort of a tax on non-ebook users) or we do it this way where it is variable and let the user self select.
This is fair. If it was built into the cover price, those who don't use DI would complain, with good reason.
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 2:54PM
#76
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Aug 17, 2007
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Our plan is that when you buy a book it will have a unique code and with a very nominal fee you can unlock the e-book version. This will also auto-populate the data bases in the character creator so the system knows what books you own/play with.
A good idea...
It's always been a pain to key things in yourself.
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
A. Einstein
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 3:20PM
#77
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- Veers has got nothing on me
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Wait - so I buy the book , and I pay a subscription, but then I *also* have to pay a fee to update my DI subscription with the info from the book I just bought?
I don't like double-dippers.
WotC_ScottR said you could "turn off the rules". So maybe you have to pay the small fee to have it automate it for you, or you could just manually do it in "rules off mode"?
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 3:23PM
#78
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Aug 10, 2005
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Our plan is that when you buy a book it will have a unique code and with a very nominal fee you can unlock the e-book version. This will also auto-populate the data bases in the character creator so the system knows what books you own/play with.
Thank you. This sir, must be The Seven Heavens sent. 
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 3:26PM
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1) it is a verification step that helps us deal with less than honest people who take the code and activate it.
2) there is cost, albeit small, with making the e-book and we either build that cost into the cover price and everyone pays whether they use it or not (sort of a tax on non-ebook users) or we do it this way where it is variable and let the user self select.
I have in the past purchased gaming materials second hand. I do this because it allows me to get more gaming materials for the same (sadly limited) budget. Will I be unable to use the online content for second-hand books (as the "verification step" above implies)? Or does the very nominal fee cover this as well?
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6 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2007 - 3:28PM
#80
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WotC_ScottR, a lot of gaming groups have one person buy a book, and then many players using the book. I understand that only one account (attached to the person who buys the book) will have access the online digital version of the book, but will there be a way for players to populate the database attached to their online accounts with rules from a book that they did not personally buy?
If not, are you saying the only way for a group of 5 people to use the options of one book with the DI database is for all 5 people to buy the hardcopy of the book?
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