An Updated ASLRB Service: What Would You Pay?

I'd pay at most $X per year for such a service

  • Nothing!

    Votes: 28 38.9%
  • $25

    Votes: 23 31.9%
  • $50

    Votes: 7 9.7%
  • $100

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • $200

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • (Some other response - see my comment below)

    Votes: 9 12.5%

  • Total voters
    72
  • Poll closed .

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I put $25/year but I think it should be cheaper. I think $5-$10 a year should get you a e-book as well as a PDF of the 'printed' rule book with all errata, etc. An electronic version (PDF, HTML, etc) of Perry Sez should be available too. Once this stuff is all digital, updating it is trivial. Charging a low yearly price would mean regular revenue for MMP which should more than cover keeping it all up to date and provide cash flow, etc. If the price is low enough, most of us would sign up and greater #s means more $$ for MMP.
 

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Regularly updating the rulebook is an ongoing service, and deserves to be paid for as such. Now MMP recovers the cost of making hard copy rule book updates by including the pages in the price of other, new products. In electronic format, it makes more sense to have a periodic renewal charge. Only MMP knows what their costs are to manage and maintain the document. They total that with the cost of sales, put a margin on it, and divide by the number of subscribers they estimate they will sign. One would hope that could be less than USD 25.00 per annum, but guessing the cost versus demand tipping point really is pure speculation without the data that only MMP have.
 

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I would purchase the eRB at a basic cost (perhaps $50 ?), then pay a yearly subscription of $25, which would include: being allowed to have the eRB on about five different machines (it should be adaptable to Windows, Apple, Linux and Android OS) and having continuous erraticizing.
It would not annulate the present production of paper rulebooks and nobody would have to purchase the electronical format.
I would see having the eRB giving some privileges, such as having printable replacement pages including the errata, that one could print oneself (in US letter but also A4 format), or having a direct way to ask rules questions.
 

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A printable PDF of the rules is no damn good for me. Getting "letter size" paper would be a nightmare and unless I printed out he while book, it would look odd.
I already update my eASLRB wit the errata and the Perry Sez regularly but would still be willing to pay a fee each year. £25 send on the high side but fair given the with involved.
 

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I understand the rules need to be updated. I am not sure however as to whether I want to pay for errata. That model doesn't seem to reward quality work, although we ARE talking about MMP here.

Plus at the moment, I get printable PDFs of amended pages at the moment for free.

Rgds Jack
 

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I was speaking of the erraticized pages only.
As an option for subscribers.
No obligation to print them.
I don't see how additional options can be bad if one doesn't want to use them.
 

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Tick the "print to fit page size box" when you open the print command, and you're all set.
But then you have pages sticking out the bottom of the folder or out of the side depending on whether you want to use an A4 or letter size binder.
 

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Getting "letter size" paper would be a nightmare and unless I printed out he while book, it would look odd.
Is 8.5x11 paper hard to get in the EU and UK? The local office supply places here in the US sell A4. They even have sheet protectors in that size.
 

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Specialist paper suppliers only. As for page protectors, forget it. However, cheap A4 one often his letter size without crinkling.
 

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I believe that MMP owes the ASL community a 3rd Edition Rulebook, not some "PDF service" where you pay to do everything yourself. The 2nd Edition rulebook was printed in 2001. It is 2017. There are people playing ASL who were not born the last time a new rulebook was printed. There are 16 years of errata to be put into the rules. Get it done.
 

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This statement presumes that some other person or organization (not yourself, perhaps?) could/would create one faster than MMP. That requires considerable imagination and chutzpah. Did you have anyone in mind when you blurted that opinion out?
 
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Seems to me that if there's indeed a 16 year old trying to play the game today, that's likely to be the demographics who want the ASLRB on PDF.

I like the chutzpah though.

I want the Korea module - Get it done.
I want Red Factory - Get it done.
I want the Partisan module - Get it done.
I want Kohima - Get it done.
I want cheaper shipping from the US - Get it done.
I want a big house, a large table, beers in the fridge, friends with nothing to do and tons of money so I can play ASL all day - Get it done.
 

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I would readily purchase a 3rd edition rulebook with integrated errata.
If it simultaneously existed in electronic format, I would buy it too.
If it offered some optional improvements such as gor-gor heretic rules, I would also buy it.
 

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There are 16 years of errata to be put into the rules.
No there aren't. There've been half a dozen or more replacement pages issued since 2001, freely available on their website (although I didn't know that putting up a replacement page on the web site was as hard as they say it is).

What we could use is an eASLRB so we can ditch the printed version altogether. MMP should stop wasting their time with printed versions altogether.
 

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What we could use is an eASLRB so we can ditch the printed version altogether. MMP should stop wasting their time with printed versions altogether.
I haven't used my printed ASLRB since I started making my (continually in progress) HTML eASLRB in 2001...

In other words...what Brian said.
 

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I'd not pay anything.......

Having bought two ASLRBv2 and a Pocket ASLRB, I have spent enough money on a rule book.

What I would pay for is a good eASLRB with the ability to update, which I would expect to be part of the cost and not a further cost.

Peace

Roger
 

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I'd not pay anything.......

Having bought two ASLRBv2 and a Pocket ASLRB, I have spent enough money on a rule book.

What I would pay for is a good eASLRB with the ability to update, which I would expect to be part of the cost and not a further cost.

Peace

Roger
I kind of go along with this. If a charge is a must the most that I would pay is around the $10. a year range for any type(s) of updates
 

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Of course, these are the responses of veteran players who have already bought the goods in print. The unknown market segment is how many new players without our binders, pocket rulebooks, errata and Q&A would be willing to shell out for the e-service.
 
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