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If a subscription were an advance on the coming year, and it had more perks (like, inclusion in some form of beta? influence over which sets are worked on?) then I'd probably bite. Maybe with a year's subscription you get the back catalog at a discounted price? I can't see exclusive downloadable content with a subscription - in light of your recent note regarding the state of piracy, anything you make downloadable probably wouldn't stay "exclusive" for long. I mean, I like the idea though. Maybe some extra props? A couple extra wall styles? But, I'd imagine there'd be plenty of people who'd feel OK pirating the extras knowing they bought the set they go with...
The full access to the catalog seems crazy, unless the price is *really* high. I think I'm prepared to blow $50-$60/year based on the past couple of years of fantasy releases. At this point, I own *most* of what I'm expecting to buy, though there are a couple of things that I'd get were they available - things like the cove or swamp sets. I really enjoy the hobby, though, so even if there's $50 of stuff in the coming year that I'd normally want to pick up, I'd gladly pay a premium up front if it meant more consistency in the pace of releases, or maybe some form of assistance with kitbash resources, etc...
I don't know if decoupling the old catalog from the subscription would make sense - I totally agree that access to the old catalog is only useful for the first 30 minutes of the subscription. That's probably more than enough time to download everything. If there were a "bundle" price for access to all of The Vault, and a "bundle" price for access to all of The Classics... There's so much good stuff in your catalog! I just can't think of how to put a price on essentially the whole thing. It's making my head spin. I could totally make use of pieces of wildwood grove, or swampwoods, atlantis... chunky dungeons! the arena! Even hellworks would be fun to me for kitbashing potential. Undercrypt... there's some TLX kitbash potential there. The cathedral! Well, ok... I just wish you guys would convert this beautiful set... I have no room for it if I can't break it down...
Yeah - maybe if the vault/classic sets were discounted heavily while you've got a subscription, or with a subscription you can get some number of those old sets at a heavy discount (or even one free with the subscription? that'd be cool.) The TLX sets, maybe also discounted, but not quite as heavily. Then, all of the coming year sets are paid for by the subscription...
But you asked how much I'd be willing to pay? It's easy for me to slip a $11.50 purchase under the radar. I'd be willing to pay $75 for a 1-year subscription, knowing that I only normally pick up $50 worth of stuff, but that the other $25 would go to... I don't know... covering $25 worth of revenue you'd miss due to others pirating downloads? :-/ If I were to download more than the $50 that I normally download, it's honestly probably stuff I'd never intend to build anyway, like Mayhem stuff.
If you were to tell me that you were working on a whole monster manual's worth of standees using the One Monk format (I do like those removable bases!) then I'd pay up front, and I'd pay plenty.
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