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So the current pricing plan as per the article is for the current Web-content only.

That is to say:

• Dragon Magazine;
  
• Dungeon Magazine;
  
• Compendium; and
  
• Bonus tools

A years access to the above will thus cost about $60.

I am glad to see that the Pricing Model Directed Discussion had a good effect. It will, however, be intersting to see how further content will add to the pricing. Hopefully the price for the upper-end stays the same as originally discussed.

nice to finally see some information thanks.

I just want to know when the beta ends, and the pricing begins?

Well this is a step in the right direction, the communication.

$5 dollars a month for both magazines would be fine for me... Except that the magazines are, in my opinion, of very poor quality overall.

To date there is little to no editing apparently performed on an article before it is uploaded (at least not by anybody who is familiar with the rules or even has access to a PHB), and even after the community dissects the articles -- finding all sorts of mathematical errors and mechanical issues and rules conflicts -- the articles are compiled basically as they were when first uploaded; errors and all.

I have not gone and made up my own lists about what has been changed in this or that article, but apparently tons of it is going through "broken." If the community will have to constantly comb through every line of each article that contains any kind of rules information, then I am sorry to say I don't think the magazines are going to be right for me.

Additionally, old problems still remain, such as the inability for older issues of the e-zines to finally be compiled into single PDFs, and the latest glitch with the compiled file sizes being exponentially larger than they should be, but that will (correct me if I'm wrong) apparently not be changed back to smaller sizes except "for future issues." Updates are also no longer performed on Monday/Wednesday/Friday as was once stipulated, but are now kind of random days and times.

It's great and all that the magazines are "rules legal" and made by the R&D department, but that doesn't mean you guys are able to put together a good magazine. If the past issues are addressed, and there is a significant increase in quality before the charging period starts, I may reconsider -- I want to like the products -- but it is very hard to at this point in time.

The Compendium is basically useless to me because of the way it is set up -- I greatly preferred the online SRDs of old because they could actually be navigated and the search tools could find what you typed in. The most important use for an online search tool would be for rules which you want to find fast, but currently you get nothing explaining the mechanics of things like Opportunity Attacks or Coup de Grace's if you type those in, simply tangential mentions in feats and classes.

Thank you for the announcement. I think that pricing plan for the web content is completely reasonable and I look forward to attempting to try out the products at Gen Con.