Recent content by mamba

yeah, it is if you feel like they all need to have a specific location they are from, they could also be mixed in like that too For the FR, it probably is too much of a retcon to start having nations of whatever species recently popped up. Not sure how you determine whether a species does make...

Are you saying WotC is 3 times as good at making supplements as anyone else? I am pretty sure there are many people who disagree with that, and it is also not reflected in their full book print or digital prices... If not, then this is entirely in the eye of the beholder, with no comparison to...

guess we will have to disagree on that, I compare the price of a sandwich to a burger or something like that, not to a lawnmower. That a $40 sandwich costs 10% of what a lawnmower costs does not make it cheap or justifies its price (no idea what a lawnmower actually costs ;) ) Also, I never...

it better be, but that BluRays cost around the same is still no justification for the sandwich costing that much ;)

so other TTRPGs or 5e products are not competition... I am not saying that $15 is necessarily a lot of money in absolute terms, but for this, yeah, it is way too much. That some sandwich costs $15 is besides the point, a $40 sandwich is also overpriced, even though a BluRay might cost $40, the...

I based this on what the competition charges for comparable products, personal interest and income are not part of this at all. There are tons of products that I am not interested in, and I never complain that they are too expensive because of that. This one absolutely is too expensive in...

the value someone ascribes to things with intrinsic value also varies widely from person to person, that is not really all that different from things with no intrinsic value yes, that is how you arrive at the price of something, you try to figure out at what price point you maximize your...

does the DLC fall into the luxury category for you? For me that is more the Beadle&Grimm or Dwarven Forge end of things.

if things are worth what people are willing to pay for them, then you finally dropped the pretense that the price is justified by being 50-60% of what a printed version would be. Then the price is justified purely by enough people being willing to buy it at that price point. I agree with that...

assuming there is extreme underpricing, which is very much debatable and depends on a lot more than the price of an individual item WotC’s profit margin is around 40%, higher for digital, so if they do not pay enough it is not because they do not charge enough

not sure what you mean by no intrinsic value, either D&D books have that or almost everything that is for sale does not have an intrinsic value… movies, books, concert tickets, … For simplicity the difference between the cost to create a thing and the price it sells at is what is relevant here...

I am sorry, if one dealer offers the same car at three times the price as any other dealer, I’d say they are factually overpriced. This is not all that different yeah, but the digital DLC still costs more per page than the FR book in print. Just because print may be underpriced (and they just...

and none of this has anything to do with the DLCs, they are not subsidizing the char generator. Nor does that take a lot of computing power either

not really, the definition of overpriced is something costing more than it is worth. That doesn’t mean that only things that do not find enough buyers to cover their cost are overpriced. Humans are not very rational actors, that is why the stock market creates huge bubbles every few years

no AI power consumption levels here, just dirt cheap storage. If that is an issue, WotC is more than welcome to offer PDFs instead